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12. Candle-lit
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Type: Original
Medium: Pastels
Genre: Portraiture
Artwork Size: 21cm (w) x 30cm (h)
Uploaded on: Tuesday 27th Jun, 2023
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Type: Original
Medium: Pastels
Genre: Portraiture
Artwork Size: 21cm (w) x 30cm (h)
Uploaded on: Tuesday 27th Jun, 2023
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Created Jan-Feb 2021
Inspired by a power-cut during the Covid-19 lockdown. The house was decked with candles as we waited for the electricity to come back on. With no juice - and banned from leaving the house to sit somewhere with power - you have to break routine.
The subject had long felt that some of my previous portraits had been a bit ‘warts & all.’ (See ‘PhD.’) It led to a conversation about what ‘the artist sees’ as opposed to pure ‘observation.’
This Caravaggio-like portrait depicts the woman I fell in love with 4 decades ago - and who I still see across the dinner table every evening.
