by Richard Greatrex | Mar 26, 2025 | Image Essays
Idetification.. . . .Carlos & Jason Sanchez . . . . 2007 Blog # 23 It started here. I was always enamoured of this photograph, it drew me in, invited me to see a story, the story. What can we see? A mortuary, acidic and yet not quite clean. A place of bodies, now...
by Richard Greatrex | Mar 6, 2025 | Image Essays
Running Away with the Hairdresser Kevin Sinnot 1995 Blog # 22 It’s hot, sultry, cloying. Even the few trees were looking for shade. Dog days, unusual in a South Wales Valley. He sits on a bench, a bench with concrete moulded ends where small stones outdo the...
by Richard Greatrex | Feb 11, 2025 | Image Essays
Blog # 21 The Louvre. A bunch of folk looking at the Mona Lisa. They notice the enigmatic smile, the subtle modelling of form and the atmospheric illusion. They view the Sfumato style, the smoky style. However I am not so sure they are looking at the Mona Lisa. To me...
by Richard Greatrex | Jan 24, 2025 | Image Essays
Blog # 20 Some while ago, strolling through the National Portrait Gallery in London, there it was: Citizen Sid. I was immediately enchanted. Citizen Sid was painted in 1962 by Ruskin Spear. A painter, a teacher, a well loved mentor, an official war artist, often...
by Richard Greatrex | Jan 14, 2025 | Image Essays
IN LOOKING OUT Blog # 19 Enigmatic, cryptic, perplexing, recondite, arcane, mysterious. Yet also. . . arresting, intriguing, hypnotic, enchanting and tantalising. We see netting, a rip, a hole, a landscape and a mirror. How can such rudimentary and innocent elements...
