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Originally Posted by Thomasin Dewhurst
There is such a change in myself from when I painted my early work and now, that looking at my early painting is like looking at the work of another artist and trying to work out how it was done.
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Thomasin, believe me I know exactly what you mean! I have had a similar experience. Other people seem to recognize my early work as being mine, though to me it looks like another hand painted it. I believe that the markers by which other people identify an artist's style are the very things the artists think they need to work on, even overcome (though that never can actually happen).
To be honest, if I hadn't
known it was yours I might not have been certain, but I might have thought there was a "Thomasinian" quality about the figures and expressions. And of course your way of using color was quite different then. But I like the same things about this older piece that I do about your newer work. There is the same evidence of a creative process in the faces and figures, maybe a struggle to say something that is uniquely your vision. The result is this illusion of stretching and moulding and becoming right on the canvas.
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