What the Mirror Saw
Do we have time to study a painting so that it can express a thousand words, perhaps not. The context of a painting made hundreds of years ago would have been clear to whoever encountered one, for example referring to a scene from the Bible. Nowadays, paintings are created with as many contexts as people painting them and they wizz before our eyes as quickly as our mobile finger can move. Being both a viewer and a painter I wanted to address this situation so I’ve written a book about my self-portraits, not from my point of view but from the mirror’s, with the hope that it would provide a different way of viewing a painting.
Mirrors and self-portraits go hand in hand and there is something a little mysterious about both: light, reflection, dimension, perspective, boundaries and the big search for what lies beyond.
The book has 12 paintings about 50 pages on nice quality paper and costs £35.
