Mr Lindsay Clarke, author (acrylic on canvas)
This portrait of Lindsay Clarke is not an attempt to lay bare the character of an award-winning writer but rather to use his magnificent head to make a simple painting, in which no clues are given and the sitter’s gaze becomes irrelevant. It was accomplished after a single sitting, during which more time was spent on conversation, beer and cakes than on art. Emblem or icon; the result looks like it belongs on a postage stamp, a Roman coin or a banknote but somehow, Clarke’s character still seems to percolate through the inert, polymerised pigment.
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