Time Lapse of my Portrait Artist of the Year piece
To coincide with our two-person show at 24 Berwick ST, London (book appointment here)
Accepted into the Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize 2021
Exhibition in London September 2021 then Touring the UK
80 x 60cm
Charcoal and acrylic paint on paper
International Women’s Day, March 2021
Here’s how it came about….
I had been off work from my teaching job since October 2020 whilst getting treatment for breast cancer. For most of that time, England was in some stage of Covid lockdown, so I wasn’t alone in my confinement! My treatment was great, I was lucky to catch it early and for most of the time, I felt well and fine, but appreciated the time to rest and reflect – and would go for long walks around Hove and the South Downs with my friends to get out and talk. During this time I asked my friends to let me take a few photos of them and started making small portraits of them. This felt both therapeutic and celebratory – I was noticing these women in a deeper way and appreciating them with every brushstroke.
