A friend of mine is a beautiful, pint-sized dancer. Graceful, warm & gentle, she treads carefully through life taking pains not to hurt the people she touches. Although delicate in aesthetic she is tough & fearless.I asked her sometime ago to do a shoot with me, she employed some of her Capeoira moves along with her ballet to give me a series of photos full of grace & agility. I wanted to do them justice, & wasn't happy with my initial attempts to rush a set of ink drawings focusing on a red umbrella, her prop.
Sepia-toned ink on watercolour paper with a tiny brush, beautifully framed by Norman at Preservation Framers, they look best as a series, but can be purchased individually.
She confided in me a problem that was causing her sadness & frustration one night, and it inspired me to paint this triptych from the original shots. Portraying her as a tight-rope walker, fearless and strong but feminine & graceful, I believe now I have managed to depict a side of her I have learned through our conversations and shared experiences.
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