head paintings

  • Accidental Image
  • Gaze
  • Abstracted
  • Slob
  • In Extremis
  • One-Off
  • Slippage
  • Untitled
  • Boy
  • Face I
  • Face II
  • Girl I

Although it begins from a life drawing, the 'portrait' in paint becomes more about substance than physical likeness. A different kind of actuality.

The acccidental marks that happen during the making seem to me to have some resonance with those elements of chance in birth and life that go to shape an individual.

Why do we invest so much meaning in the configuration of a face?

Tom