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Why Clowns? I really don’t know.
As a child I remember seeing clowns. There were travelling circus in the UK and, when the circus came to town, my parents would take me to see the show.
When I finished art college I chased a career in comedy. It was a dream, sadly, frustrated by circumstance.
My clowns are all imagined. Their faces, costume and makeup all created solely to make their ‘once-in-a-lifetime-appearance' in this painting.
They were created from strands of research and reference and sketched out in pencil before they made it, in full colour, onto the canvas.
One thing I didn‘t expect to encounter when I was painting the faces was that I had to actually complete their portraits before I could apply their makeup.
Art imitating life!
In contemporary culture clowns are portrayed as macabre and horrific grotesques. The fine art of ‘Clowning’ has evaporated into the ‘custard-pie-in-the-face' mists of time.
There’s an inherent melancholy beneath the makeup and red noses which, hopefully, I’ve captured in this work.
And, as we all know, life’s an unpredictable circus. So send in the clowns!
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