sheena portrait study

Those Bette Davis eyes were a big thing in the 80s .. as was pop icon Sheena Easton !

I do a lot of these studies in small format, exploring ideas, oil painting techniques, tricks of film-lighting, and in preparation for my large face-landscape genre wall paintings.

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Melbourne based figurative artist who has studied Life Drawing and Classical Venetian painting technique for several decades. Studied Life Drawing with Peter Waddell in Auckland. Solo Exhibition of large scale abstract expressionist action paintings at LeCoq Art Space Melbourne Drawing expeditions to London, Nice, Paris, Bangkok. Life drawing regular at Julian Ashton academy The Rocks, Sydney.Invited to present drawings and discuss at Life Models Society Melbourne. Works represented in private collections in Auckland, Melbourne, Kuwait, London Studied old master oil techniques in Flemish and Venetian idioms, particularly Rubens.