Portraits

John Cole

Portraits,

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This is a portrait of my friend John Cole who passed away in 2003. John was a talented self taught artist who was interested in invented portraits and he blended Surrealism with the London School. In his formative years John served an apprenticeship with Alfred Hecht guilders and framers who made the wonderful gold frames for Francis Bacon.
At some point in the future I will post some info and examples of John’s work.

Portraits

Portraits

 

Portrait 3b

 

I am going to post some portraits both old and new. It’s something I’ve done over 40 or so years for different clients and it’s time to take it more seriously. I work from photographs and try to bring a level of drawing and originality to the work. The drawing above was produced in 2001 and came from a colour magazine image. It was drawn with a sanguine Conte pencil.

Over the next few weeks I will add some more together with some thoughts on portraiture.