THE CBPP
have inspired him to travel far and wide, including a period
of time in Sierra Leone recording the faces of doctors
and nurses on the front line treating the Ebola virus.
Other members have found inspiration closer to home
too, as demonstrated by Danny Howes’s portraits of
workers in wholesale markets, a beautifully painted suite
that offers an updated take on British social realism.While remaining primarily a collective of painters, the
CBPP also encourages the contemporary by embracing
new media and approaches. Robert Sample uses mixed
media in his work, combining areas of strong traditional
realism with spray-painted symbols, dayglo colours and
oil drips to create a glitchy, at times unsettling fusion of
street art and classical portraiture in which the subject
is also anonymous.
Obscuring of the subject is a feature, too, in the work
of Lucy Pass. Her piece, The Power and the Glory, was
nominated for the John Ruskin Prize 2019, and is an
unusual portrait in its treatment of the face, maskingPATRICK MORALES-LEE
Which three contemporary portrait artists do you
most admire and why?
“I would widen this to figurative artists, as I would
consider myself this. So, the three would be Michaël
Borremans, Jenny Saville and Adrian Ghenie.
“Their work is just so electrifying, be it be the
narrative in Borremans’s work, the multiple layers of
mark marking in Saville’s drawings, or the raw painting
approach in Ghenie’s work.”
http://www.studiomorales.co.ukRIGHT Patrick
Morales-Lee, Holy
Garment, pencil,
charcoal and
acrylic on paper,
29.7x42cm