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competition spotlightI STUDIED FINE ARTUniversity’s Ruskin School of Art, at Oxford
but my actual career began in theilm and television business, work
ing my way up and producing manyTV commercials In 2002, I realized
howmuchImissedcreatingmyownart and jumped at the chance to get back to painting.
clothes act as metaphors. hI’m fascinated by the way e way
they’re hung or cast of hints at stories and relationships. I’d been
thinking about men’s shirts of mixedcolors, which might suggest some
one’s planning an evening out heireplace is a rather austere spot in
our old farmhouse, and the mantelwith pencil directlyI sketched
onto the canvasand lightly painted
in the key outlines with a cool brown.
I blocked in all the shapes in mono-
chrome to establish the tonal range, then
worked up each block in color. I use
Michael Harding oil paint, initially
diluted with tur-pentine, and then as
the layers begin to build, my preferred
medium is Liquin. I worked across the
left and then worked across again, canvas from right to
building up the detail. Depicting fabric is always a challenge, but
working over all the creases and folds is totally absorbing. Like life
models, clothing is more interesting with wrinkles and imperfections
with me a love of lighting and of artFrom ilmmaking, I brought
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