Those of you who know me, you will know just how thunderstruck I was after viewing the "beyond the screen of light" exhibit at the National Gallery of Victoria in 2005. Since then, I have been referencing the great man in many of my works.
My first painting class project this year is; select an artist and try to reproduce a painting (must be a self portrait), paint my own self portrait in this manner, develop my own series of images dealing with the theme of identity. Total of nine images.
I chose James Gleeson's "portrait of the artist as an evolving landscape" oil on canvas 152x204cm, 1993.
To see Gleeson's self portrait that I am using as a starting point follow
this link. Due to copyright laws I cannot show you this image so please follow the link to view.
It will be a daunting task and I think I may have chosen something beyond my capabilities at this particular stage - but, I have thrown down the gauntlet and here I go!
I will be posting my works in progress from time to time.
This is the one of me, it is still a working progress. Both of these paintings are painted in acrylics where as the original was painted in oil. James Gleeson's original is 152x204cm, mine are both 28x35cm. Following these two, my next task is to paint 7 off-springs, varying each one either by using a different technique, style or medium. To view James Gleeson's original follow this link this link.
