Face Among Leaves

Catalogue note

A pale, barely-there face emerges from a field of soft leaves and rounded forms, as though dissolving into the surface that carries it. The tonality is almost monochrome, pale greens and greys over a tinted ground, with forms held by the faintest of edges and washes. This fragility pushes the image toward the symbolic, making a portrait that is as much about memory and evanescence as about a person.