Paul Hutchinson
oil on canvas
810 X 810 mm
1997
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I guess this was the most unusual and awkward pose I had attempted. It certainly proved to be a marathon effort to paint from life. I had just recently returned from a trip to Europe where I studyed all the great paintings I had up until then only seen in reproduction. When I got back to my little insular world in Taranaki I sank into a deep depression that proved to be quite a debilitating illness. In fact this painting as well as another upside-down portrait proved to be some of the last paintings I would paint for two years. Those years are largely a blank to me today. I spent most of it sleeping or just vegetating in a chair. |
| 1974 - 1983 | 1984 - 1993 | 1994 - 2003 | 2004 - 2014 |
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