{"title":"Portraits","description":"","products":[{"product_id":"the-actor-who-are-you","title":"The Actor - Who Are You?","description":"\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"small-font no-pad-top\"\u003eThe Actor - Who Are You\u003cbr\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e122 x 91.5 cm \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"small-font no-pad-top\"\u003eMy son, the actor Laurence Fuller, has been acting since he was ten years old. For two decades I've watched him come alive on stage as someone or something else.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"small-font no-pad-top\"\u003eWe all put on masks. Portray a version of ourselves we think other people want to see, or we want them to see. It's a fascinating aspect of the Human Condition that we are hidden.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"small-font no-pad-top\"\u003eWho are you really? Only you can know that. And the search to find out who you are takes a lifetime.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"small-font no-pad-top\"\u003eI hope that every person viewing this painting sees themselves. And that by viewing their guilty hidden selves they release something and become a better version of themselves, a more accepting version.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"small-font no-pad-top\"\u003eSome of my favourite artworks and literature tell of the animal side of our nature. The Tale of Gilgamesh and the story of the wild man Enkidu, the Golden Fleece of Greek Mythology and the Ram of Ancient Mesopotamia.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"small-font no-pad-top\"\u003eIn our modern day culture, we have The Joker. From Roman through Medieval times, the Joker\/Fool perhaps reached its Shakespearean heights as the jester in aristocratic courts across Europe. But she’s in all of us.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"small-font no-pad-top\"\u003eI wrote this about the work before the Covid-19 Pandemic. Now as I look back I am shocked that I made a portrait of my son wearing a mask before the Pandemic began. I started the portrait of him in January added the mask on the 10th of February without any conscious conception of what we were about to experience. It was finished on the 14th February 2020.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Stephanie Fuller Artist","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":32525166051433,"sku":"2020039","price":4520.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0277\/9312\/9577\/products\/IMG_9065-4.jpg?v=1592317636"},{"product_id":"the-actor-he-may-display-or-hide","title":"The Actor - He May Display Or Hide","description":"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe Actor - He May Display Or Hide\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eOil on Canvas\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e122 x 91.5 cm \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThis is a portrait of my son the Hollywood actor and screen play writer, Laurence Fuller.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eHaving drawn and sculpted Laurence since he was a child coming to see the subject in a new light takes on a new meaning in manhood.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eFor me this quote explains better than I can what I see in this portrait.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e“In acting and speaking, men show who they are, reveal actively their unique personal identities and thus make their appearance in the human world, while their physical identities appear without any activity of their own in the unique shape of the body and sound of the voice. This disclosure of “who” in contradistinction to “what” somebody is—his qualities, gifts, talents, and shortcomings, which he may display or hide—is implicit in everything somebody says and does.”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eHannah Arendt, The Human Condition\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eKnowing a person so well can be an impediment and an advantage for the artist.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eFor me getting beyond the photographic, which never captures time, is the essential element of bringing a portrait to life.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Stephanie Fuller Artist","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":32525174341737,"sku":"2020026","price":4520.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0277\/9312\/9577\/products\/S_Fuller_The_Actor_48x36in.jpg?v=1592317636"},{"product_id":"blue-sky","title":"Portrait, Blue Sky","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003ePainting characters is a new series of works for me based on memory. It's been so joyful being in public again I am soaking in all the faces around me even more than I used to before the pandemic.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eI've always been a people watcher. I love characters, I remember moments. Sometimes it's a piece of clothing or an expression or some amazing eyebrows, like in this portrait.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eNone of the people are real, but they could be, or I just think they aren't real but my subconscious has remembered them.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ePortrait, Blue Sky\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eWatercolour on Hand-made Watercolour paper\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eArtists’ handmade paper from Khadi Papers India. This paper is made from 100% long fibered cotton rag. 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