Past Portraits

Please excuse the poor quality images. Most were taken on my old phone.

This was my first ever painting using acrylics. It was part of the development work for a module I did during National Diploma Art & Design (2011). The theme was regeneration. I was most inspired by the work of Jenny Saville, in both her themes and her style of painting. I decided that I would look at regeneration as the healing of skin after burns, operations and other injuries such as black eyes. This painting was done from a cross-section of 'Stare' by Jenny Saville.

 Bigger than it looks! I will try get another picture some time. This was the final painting for the regeneration project. It is acrylic on paper and then digitally printed and stretched over canvas. It later went on display at a Church in Gateshead and then as part of the end-of-year show.