About Portraits

Aasha, Watercolour and ink on paper. A portrait done of someone that one knows well should be easy to do. But the truth is that I have not found it easy at all. Every attempt seems to leavesomething out, as though the complexity of the individual being painted is only…

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Drawing materials

12.04.2020 Dance. Watercolor on paper, 2020. After a reasonably frustrating day when it seemed as though everything I was doing had no real sense of form, I finally went back to working with a fibre tipped pen. After that things seemed to come into focus again. How much of what…

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India, 2005

In 2005, having earned some money working on mosaics at the New Metro Mall, I visited India. India had a profound effect on me. Not necessarily a spiritual effect but rather in the sense that I saw colours and people that seemed to move something deeply in my being.  I also saw buildings that were simple and which seemed…

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Miro

I never really got Miro. I found his work to be too playful in his later years and too earnestly surreal in his earlier work. Until one day, suddenly, as though a screen fell away, I saw his work. Clearly. So, as I drew this and as I painted in…

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