People

Behind the head carvings and drawings are a number of specific people that I work from time and time again, producing head drawings which cannot help but have a strong portrait element.

I have completed over 30 drawings and some paintings of Steven Berkoff - actor/ theatre director


Some have been about movement and energy in acrylics and charcoal on card

 

Some are about the person behind the act.  These are drawings in oil paint onto canvas board

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There have been some from life - but that was not the answer to a person who is about gesturing and expressing.


To find out more about Steven Berkoff follow the fisher/berkoff  Link on Contacts Page


I work largely from the video, which allows as much time as necessary to study what it is about them, their manner and movement that interests me

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There is something intriguing about 
Will Self - his novels and short stories, as well as at interview

 


These people are a particular selection, some known, but only in particular circles.  I choose them from stage and tv interview largely because that is what I like to watch, it is how I become interested in the first place, and it is available to work from over a time period.  Theye are people in the arts who are powerful within their own medium.  They are all disturbing people.

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Harold Pinter actor and playwright was one of the first people I became hooked on long after studying his plays at school - I became interested in the uncomfortable man in the rare interviews he gave and how that related to his work






Pinter bought one of the Pinter  drawings

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J. Creaye