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All my portraits are really just ways of containing information about making drawings and paintings.

— David Fairbairn

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It includes a variety of images from the bush, the heads of other people, a whole medley of other information.

I don’t necessarily see them as being about portraiture.”

I build up successive layers of different media until I define the image.

I’m really interested in analysing the structures under the glasses and they got in the way. I just got irritated because I couldn’t see into the eyes and the sockets clearly enough.”

My work is a self portrait and was done without my glasses on

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