Artist profile
As a young female artist, I am figuring out my place in the genre of Contemporary Portraiture – my practice is focused on painting portraits from photographs. The idea of capturing something in a second and translating this into a painting, creates a relationship between me and my audience.
I can modify what the viewer sees through disregarding the primary photograph. Through developing a focus on specific elements, I can adapt backgrounds and replace them with personified colours in an attempt to encourage an individualistic interpretation of an edited image.
My current paintings are inspired by flat shapes and colour and how I can use these to enhance aspects of my sitter. By flattening out the original photograph, I am able to capture the sitter’s gaze in my paintings to create a relationship between sitter and viewer – this is the pinnacle of my practice and allows my presence as an artist to be known by the audience.
By painting people I have emotional relationships with, I am able to establish a stronger element of detail and give the audience a focus point. Knowing the sitter well allows me to capture their gaze convincingly through a combination of improvisation and reality.
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