by omma moon
Pastel and charcoal on paper
h: 65 w: 48 d: 1 (cms).
Painting and drawing a portrait from life is analogous to discovering a person over time, rather than apprehending them all at once. The image unfolds through stages of recognition, just as a relationship does, beginning with provisional marks and slowly moving toward clarity. In this way, the portrait reflects the lived experience of encounter. As with meeting a person, understanding emerges gradually, shaped by duration and sustained looking. The visible process of making becomes inseparable from the act of knowing, suggesting that to paint from life is not reducible to producing a likeness, but to participate in an ongoing act of discovery. ‘The impulse to paint,’ wrote John Berger, ‘comes neither from observation nor from the soul (which is probably blind) but from an encounter: the encounter between painter and model.’ This portrait recounts the story of this encounter, made visible.
£650 (As exhibited.)
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