Michael Britton: A Selection of Copies

A tronie is a character study which, for me, is the essence of portrait painting. My painting voice invokes a tactile, sculptural sensibility informed by the bravura brush work of Frans Hals.

A successful painting carries weight. The paint works as flesh. It should not appear belabored but to have emerged effortlessly. But that is an illusion. Underlying the seeming effortless is an additive/subtractive architecture of geometry and planar structures contributing to a unified expression.