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Two Portrait Sketches made in a Paris Quarter

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This short story sprung out of two portrait sketches made in a Paris quarter last night.

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Exhibitions, ROCHE Gallery

A Portrait of Rye – Retrospective Exhibition Press Release

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A Portrait of Rye - exhibition of portraits of Rye People by portrait artist Marina Kim

The show’s visitors will be delighted to see the well-recognised faces of community leaders and the town’s characters, skillfully captured by Marina Kim through many years in Rye, with empathetic perception.

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Portraiture

The Swing

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“The Swing” Acrylic on canvas painting. 106.6×106.6cm or 42″x42″. Unframed. This painting is rather mysterious. My girls were very young then and we used to spend a lot of time at the playground whenever the day turned out nice. I also used to photograph them a lot more than they let me do now. On […]

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Portraiture

Me and My Girls

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This February half-term we didn’t go anywhere, and while my girls were home and the light was good, I bribed them to sit for the portraits. After all, last time I painted them was at least a couple of years ago, and I never painted them from life, always from photos. Now that they are […]

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Interview for “Show Me The Monet” BBC Series

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A friend of mine, Lesley Samms, sent me a link at the end of December to apply for the “Show Me The Monet” BBC series on art which I did. And forgot about it. Last week nice voice by the name of Nel phoned and we had a great chat – that was the second […]

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Portrait Drawings

Portrait Exchange with John Izod

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Browsing the Internet I re-visited the Portrait Party site. That reminded me of a portrait exchange we had with John Izod of Rye. John was one of the first people we got to know when moved to Rye. Since then we came to realise that he became in a way a feature of the town. […]

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Contemplating

Around the World in 80 Portraits

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This idea came up: On the website we put up an ad. Huge one! The Roche family is travelling the world. The idea is to pay for the accomodation and travelfare by portraits. Anyone who lives or has homes on the route and interested in commissioning a portrait, please contact us. Now, let’s see what […]

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Portrait Commissions, Portrait Drawings

Portrait Drawing Session

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Portrait sketches of baby Isobel. Example of a portrait commission resulting in a portfolio of quick drawings. [flagallery gid=9 name=”drawings”] This portrait commission requires a life sitting and takes between 1.5 to 2 hours. Although the term “sitting” is used here rather loosely. I had several portrait commissions where I had to draw children. Of […]

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Portrait Artists

Video Clip “Women in Art”

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[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nUDIoN-_Hxs&w=640&h=510%5D   by Philip Scott Johnson 500 Years of Female Portraits in Western Art Music: Bach’s Sarabande from Suite for Solo Cello No. 1 in G Major, BWV

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Portrait Drawings

Faces Everywhere…

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Funny how things get connected these days through thin invisible digital threads… An artist came to the gallery today => I posted a link to his work => Someone “liked” my post => I went to see their blog => that reminded me of a drawing which happened long time ago… That drawing “happened”. One […]

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