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| Cathy, 2010, oil on canvas, 60 x 60cm. |
‘Cathy’ is a painting of a photograph. More accurately it is a painting of a cropped printout of a colour-adjusted scan of a faded colour photograph taken around 30 years ago. In this work I set out to explore the myth of photographic truth. Patrick Heron said[i], “The primary purpose of art is that it determines, or dictates, what we see.”
In the linked text I argue that in representing the conventions of the photographic image in a painting, the viewer can see photographic realism as a style, that whilst so dominant that it appears natural, is in fact as artifical and arbitary as any other representational convention.
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