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Thomasin,
I have seen these two works on your website and passed some time admiring your skill.
The boy is very energetic and immediate, but there is something that I find not convincing in the shape of the head and the location of the year that I would have liked to see prioritized in respect to other parts, for example the eyebrow. I mean that in my opinion, considering the short time, those indications would have been important to put down. I presume the cartoon just finished...
The other one instead is more elaborated with references to Freud's work. As usual the flesh is very present and real, and the structure of the head is as important her gaze.
The roughness and relentessness of the your canvas surface always reminds us that the painting is there and present, and not only we are staring at the image but also at the process of its working, and talks about the perennial negotiation between flatness and three-dimentionality.
Ilaria
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