Totems


From The Novel HEAD

This is a collection of the totems from the novel, painted in acrylic on A3 paper.

Each totem represents the person Byron Loroch gave it to.

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sixty shards


Abstract Conceptual Portraits

Sixty Shards is my first collection of abstract conceptual portraits, created in oil and acrylic on canvas. The series explores portraiture in shards of memories rather than fixed or representational forms. Each painting functions as a shard: a visual fragment that resists realism and instead occupies the space between memory and reality.

These works are not images of people, but moments of recognition that never fully resolve. Each painting stands alone, but the series could also be multiple facets of one person. The shards of memory are grouped by colour, font, and surface texture, suggesting presence without narrative closure and inviting the viewer to assemble meaning through absence, disjunction, and repetition.

My collections are informed by an interdisciplinary background in ephemeral memory images. The paintings below are a selection from the collection.

Also shown is my video art, Wash Out, featured in the WomenCinemakers Special Biennial Edition (September 28, 2018), and Pink Flesh Flipflops, featured by Lift-Off Global Network Limited at Pinewood Studios, England, as one of the First-Time Filmmakers 2018 Christmas Special. My engagement with the perception of ephemeral memory images is an accumulation of unresolved encounters. The series invites both sustained looking and disconnection, so the viewer experiences both positive and negative impact all at once.

Wash out

Featured in the WomenCinemakers Special Biennial Edition (September 28, 2018).

Prices for original and print editions are available upon request.

Please email: p.portraits@pportraitsnovels.com