Hello, I’m Tiggy
It all began by accident.
I have always adored portraits; looking at them and making them. How to capture that certain mannerism, feeling or expression. How do others approach that challenge? That’s the magic of a portrait. It doesn’t just look like the subject, you can read the personality through the canvas. But it’s also the hardest part to get right.
I wanted a really honest, descriptive, joyful and beautiful portrait of my children. I wanted something which would record them just as they are, just as they were, in the past, present and future, to keep forever. I researched phenomenally expensive portrait painters but had no way of knowing if these were just beautiful likenesses or if they did capture the subjects’ soul.
I couldn’t be confident of a wonderful collaboration and I couldn’t afford a mistake so I gave up looking. One day I was with a friend and started talking about my love of portraits and of how I’d love one of my children and she said — well why don’t you make one then? How ridiculously obvious! How blind we can be. So I started. It was really hard work — I’d chosen to do their faces on a large scale all with difficult expressions and I made it out of collage — my favourite medium — filling it with words, photographs and images relevant to each of them.
Well the rest is history. I made the portrait — others liked it and commissioned their own. Contact me to find out how we can make the perfect portrait for you.
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