three studies for a portrait
A reimagining in stone of a triptych by Francis Bacon entitled “Three studies of Muriel Belcher” painted in 1966.
"The creative process was in a sense painting in reverse in that I was reading the brushstrokes, colours and tones of all 3 paintings and imagining them as a single 3D form whilst attempting to retain a certain likeness. So in effect the reverse of reading a face in terms of light, shadow and colour and capturing the person on a canvas through the application of colours and tones with brushstrokes.
The key challenge was to try and represent in stone Bacon’s energetic and bold use of layered colour and sweeping brushstrokes whilst still retaining the 'signifiers of likeness' and the person within, the human presence."
Material; Anstrude Roche Claire (French Limestone)
Dimensions HWD; 38x22x30cm
Nov 2024
Price £1950
"The creative process was in a sense painting in reverse in that I was reading the brushstrokes, colours and tones of all 3 paintings and imagining them as a single 3D form whilst attempting to retain a certain likeness. So in effect the reverse of reading a face in terms of light, shadow and colour and capturing the person on a canvas through the application of colours and tones with brushstrokes.
The key challenge was to try and represent in stone Bacon’s energetic and bold use of layered colour and sweeping brushstrokes whilst still retaining the 'signifiers of likeness' and the person within, the human presence."
Material; Anstrude Roche Claire (French Limestone)
Dimensions HWD; 38x22x30cm
Nov 2024
Price £1950
