"Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter" - Oscar Wilde
I like to make portraits. This weblog presents the photographic and painted portraits of me as subject. I am the creator of this space - but I have out-sourced the art-making. I act as curator. The people providing images form a community of people that I would like to, or have already, painted. Selfish Portrait provides common ground with me at the centre. In creating a portrait of me - these artists are creating a portrait of themselves.
Sunday 16 September 2012
BAN Platford
BAN Platford was a Cotswolds based artist who painted mainly landscapes. This water-colour portrait of Caroline Jaine was made in the 1970's. Platford was born in Great Yarmouth in 1923 and died in 2002.
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