Research



I love realism. When I am trying to reproduce a photo -realistic portrait i can go into a trance like state of intense concentration , therefore I can understand the complexity of a piece of realistic art especially in portraits because the identity and facial features in everybody’s face are unique to that person and any mistakes no matter how miniscule can easily be spotted by a viewer.

when researching various artists i can understand the time and effort required to create a super-realistic portrait. When I see it done well, it inspires me to create similar skill levels to produce photo-realistic portraits in my own work.



Artists that i am researching so far that have inspired me are the likes of :David Jon Kassan, Toni Hariyanto, Ken Lee Sadako, Dirk Dzimirsky and my favourite artist the great Chuck Close.



In my portraits i going to attempt to depict my subjects as they appear in everyday life without embellishment or interpretation to scrape away the superficial, revealing the true identities and their personalities.

To do this my subject matter is going to compare between family and friends to a different culture of people on the other side of the world in Thailand who will be complete strangers to me which will i hope take away any personal involvement with the sitter and completely immerse myself in the drawing or painting to see if i can drag out the inner personalities and portray this in the work.