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Portraits
Still, Listening
2025 · Oil on linen · 36 × 28 in (91 × 71 cm)
$6,800
AvailableA study of attention rather than likeness.
- Collection
- Portraits
- Year
- 2025
- Medium
- Oil on linen
- Surface
- Belgian linen, hand-primed
- Dimensions
- 36 × 28 in (91 × 71 cm)
- Framing
- Framed in a hand-finished maple floater frame
- Edition
- Original & Prints
- Reference
- AG-019
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The Story Behind the Painting
Why this painting exists
I asked the sitter to listen to a piece of music and say nothing for an hour. This is what her face did.
Inspiration
Personal memory, the particular light of the American South, and the classical European interiors I studied as a student.
Colour & Symbolism
Blue holds distance and memory. Peach and rose hold the body and the present moment. The deepest maroon is grief, used sparingly and never at the centre.
The Creation Process
Oil on linen, worked in thin layers over several weeks. The composition shifted more than once before the final resolution.
Artist Reflection
When I stand in front of it now I feel the same quiet I felt the morning it was finished — a little exposed, and glad of it.
Message to the Viewer
I hope you recognise something of your own life in it, even if you cannot name what it is.
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