The Intimate Portrait: Drawings, Miniatures and Pastels from Ramsay to Lawrence

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Around January 2023, my artist friend, Hannah Leadbetter, suggested I try charcoal pencil - a medium I hadn't worked with before. Both the deep dive into full tonal work, which has led me to choose subjects that I would be less likely to consider for linoprint, and the intensive and detailed work involved (most of the drawings on this page have taken between 80 and 150 hours to produce (each leaf in the Oak Leaves drawing took about 8 hours to draw! In my current body of work entitled Abstract Anxiety, small compositions switch from printed images to hand drawn text. Inspired by the drawings cabinets of gentlemen and connoisseurs, this exhibition will offer a space where visitors can get close to artworks, the intimate nature of which invites contemplation and close-up viewing. Individuals over the age of 60 may apply for a 10% discount on courses at Shoreditch; to apply participants must show proof of being over 60.

Many of these drawings bear the name of the intended recipient, the artists’ handwriting—and often signatures—adding another intriguing dimension to the works. His subjects are often drawn as portraits, their faces shown with a striking detail that contrasts with the simple lines of their bodies. After trampling in the muddy rice fields of Vietnam then misreading product labels in the United States, (Millian) Giang Lien Pham received her BFA in painting and printmaking from the University of Tulsa in Oklahoma and her MFA in sculpture from the University of Florida. subjects represented – caricatures of friends, portraits of his beloved – and by the modest formats and techniques.

Since the answer to each puzzle is provided in the title of each piece, the works aim to reorient the viewer toward issues beyond mere appreciation of surface elements. The painter, Fernand Léger, taught the art of drawing at his Academie Moderne as an indispensable prerequisite to painting. Currently she is teaching as Associate Professor of Art in the department of Art and Visual Studies at Winston-Salem State University in North Carolina.

Why We Like It: The works in this varied exhibition are at turns playful and fraught, hurriedly scrawled and delicately inked—and each, interestingly, made as a gift for someone. Analytics cookies (required): These cookies allow us to measure the audience of our site and generate anonymous visitor statistics. In October 2022, with the intention of exploring new ideas for linoprints, I began producing some relatively large-scale (60x40cm) graphite pencil drawings. To enable personalised advertising (like interest-based ads), we may share your data with our marketing and advertising partners using cookies and other technologies.Advertising cookies help us monitor the effectiveness of our recruitment campaigns as well as enabling advertising to be tailored to you through retargeting advertising services. Vector couple walking outdoors at autumn Vector couple walking holding hands back view at autumn in warm outdoor clothing. This winter exhibition presented by the National Fernand Léger Museum focuses on the 1921-1925 period. I hope that Intimate Distance Drawings invite people to have an active dialogue about experiences, struggles, and challenges of their intimate relationships.

Drawing reveals a personal, and often moving, dimension to the work of Fernand Léger as seen in the rigorous and sober 1930 Self Portrait. Catalogue of an exhibition from October 25, 2008 to February 1, 2009 at the Scottish National Portrait Gallery and from March 5 to May 31, 2009 at The British Museum.As part of an exhibition this book focuses well upon it's subject matter and is both comprehensive and detailed study of a very interesting topic. Works completed from 2019 and earlier are meant to inspire intrigue about the ephemerality and fluctuation of place. These 4 or 5-star reviews represent the opinions of the individuals who posted them and do not reflect the views of Etsy.

Vernon Howe Bailey (1874–1953) was one of the most successful — and prolific — illustrators of his time.Performance cookies: These cookies allow us to track traffic on our site and collect visitor activity with Google Analytics. He is the author of a number of publications for the National Galleries of Scotland, including Richard and Maria Cosway: Regency Artists of Taste and Fashion (1995); Raeburn's Rival: Archibald Skirving 1749-1819 (1999); as well as a series of catalogues on portrait miniatures.