Portraits Touching
A drawn portrait is a collaboration between hand and eye – our eyes dart across the surface of our sitter’s face, taking in edges and shadow shapes, which our hand records in visible marks on the page. The relationship between hand and eye is reciprocal and sight is not the only sense which informs a drawing. As our eye roves over a subject, our own skin prickles with the empathetic projection of contact, informed by the memory of our tactile relationship with the world as much as by the observation of shapes and colours.
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