Self Portrait, Looking Down

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Self Portrait, Looking Down
In the collection of the Govett Brewster Art Gallery, New Plymouth
Paul Hutchinson
1984
oil on board

I think I was working in a shared TACO studio on King Street at about this time. Michael Smither had one side and I worked in the other divided by a curtain. Tom Mutch also had a space there. I had had a haircut. This was the first self portrait I was really happy about. It was painted while looking down into a small mirror I held in my hand. I just tried to paint as objective and honest a picture as I could. Michael told me it was "a great painting" and he advised the then director of the Govett Brewster Gallery that they should purchase it for their collection, which they did.

1974 - 1983

1984 - 1993

1994 - 2003

2004 - 2014

Paul Hutchinson lives in Puniho, New Zealand.

email Paul at   PJHpainter @ gmail.com (remove the spaces)