I’m not sure if all artists do this or not? But every once in a while I need a new challenge or new direction for my artwork. Collage has been flavour of the month for me for a few years now and recently I’ve started to get itchy feet. I need to move on. A part of me would really like to get back into sculpture; it played a huge part of my fine art degree & I’ve only really dabbled with sculpture since I left University. I will return to the sculpture at some point, but for now something else is pulling at my creative heart-strings a little harder than the sculpture. It’s something I did an awful lot of before I went to University and it’s something I’ve done very little of since leaving…
Portraits
I love doing portraits. Always have and it’s criminal that I haven’t done any for so long. Whether it’s simple sketching, chalk or pastel drawing, traditional oil painting or even a combination of all three, I’ve done so many portraits over the years¹ and I really felt it was time to revisit the world of portraiture. I made a few tentative enquiries on Twitter & Facebook for any willing models/sitters/Guinee-pigs & a few people have agreed, so at least I do have a few people to get to work on. Failing that it’ll have to be the trusty self-portrait that I’ll fall back on 
I am pretty determined to pursue this move back into portraiture & I’ll always be on the look out for willing models, so if your think your precious ego can handle it, just get in contact 
And finally… After waving goodbye to the collages for a while, what did I find myself doing this week?
Bordeaux (2011) – Collage on card 21 x 21cm
Morganza (2011) – Collage on card 21 x 21cm
Ok… Maybe I’ll do the portraits and the collages for a while then!!!
¹ – Almost all of my portrait work was done in a pre-digital camera age (how old does that make me feel!!!), but hopefully I should be able to get a lot of this work online soon.
