“Estelle Lovatt on Contain Multitudes”:
Your portraits of people sat in their familiar recognisable place of choice, gives the figure even more of an expressive presence than a portrait(ist) gives the body alone.
The everyday ‘place’ sets, reflects and reveals the sitter with much honesty, intimacy and authenticity. Simply. Full of compassion and power.
It’s the unpolished drawing quality of each – of each person’s small mannerisms; that’s what makes them them (and makes us us). Being surrounded with their personal objects all around, piled high, these nuanced details become extensions of themselves – their ‘self’…
I enjoy looking at your work – you’ve grabbed El Greco and you’re today’s Neo-Mannerist. So relevant and refreshing in ways quietly exciting.