Portrait in oil

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Love the way you have emphasised certain details and left others to be filled by the viewer, has real power!

Intriguing use of detail and space Gudrun.

Thank you for your appreciation. I am enjoying this exploration of my photo archive. This is probably one of a series of four or five paintings.

Hang on Studio Wall
24/11/2020
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60x80cm oil on canvas, archival as always. Part of a series of paintings inspired by elements in my photographic archive. Of course some of the detail is lost what with the bad light for photographing!

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Gudrun Ståhl Sharpley

"The good painter has to paint two principal things, that is to say, man and the intention of his mind. The first is easy and the second difficult, because the latter has to be represented through gestures and movements of the limbs." (MK388) From: Leonardo da Vinci: The Graphic Work, p16, J…

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