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Photo Credit: Noel Brown

Shani Rhys James

head'99 No2, - 1999

Shown at the Stephen Lacey Gallery Clerkenwell London in 2000 , The" head "is an on going project since 1973 . I treat the head as a landscape, my Mont St Victoire, . I look a the surface, the abstract qualities of the paint, it is not a portrait , it is capturing the visceral qualities of skin in paint, and also getting under the skin of the portrait , not in a morbid way more symbolic, a feminist piece if you like as we are so obsessed by appearance, conventional beauty, youth, it is the "inner" I want to capture

30x25

oil on gesso

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