Painting People

Our portrait group began again, for how long no one knows, but it was brilliant to get back to painting from life (right there in the room). I have painted Dawn many times but my enthusiasm for what I was looking at was as if I had never seen her before.

Most of my portraits are from photos these days, though. Today, I completed my fifth NHS portrait for Heroes.  Laura sent me a few photos.  The colour is sort of true to life in the heightened way I see things. https://artsandculture.google.com/project/healthcare-heroes

Ashley Bryan is a hero in Maine.  A few summers ago, we visited him on the neighbouring island and he talked us through his collections and told us pieces of his life story. I had known him as a child, but listening to him in his home made a vivid impression on me. https://ashleybryancenter.org