Last Christmas – Doppelganger painting
June 26th, 2010
Although I work in portraiture I am slightly obsessed with objects too and often combine the two in one portrait, see The Kinnocks or my recent portrait od Alan Garner. I’m also a big muso and I love doing these little paintings of old records which have their own character and the disciplined objectivity which I’m working towards.
I would add that I’m not a Whan fan, this was a commission – although I do have a soft spot / guilty pleasure for this particular song. I particularly like the way fashion defines decades , which is often evident in portraiture. The cover photo of “George and Andrew” looks like the photographs you used to get in the windows and on the walls barber shops in the 1980’s and it reminds me of the days when I used to have hair and visited the barbers in the Black Country with my Dad and brother as a school boy.
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