Self Portrait 2018

Here we have a self-portrait by Jammie Holmes with dominant gestural marks and a melancholic colour palette. You get the feeling this work has come into being shifting and emerging through trial, error, and intuition. The artist sympathetically looks at himself, and what it might have been like to exist. What they might have been thinking when they made it. Here we see the material aspects of painting, such as texture, color, surface, and the physicality of the medium. The paint is quite thin and translucent, which shapes our experience of the painting. The artist is in an ongoing conversation and exchange of ideas across time, inspiring creativity. The artwork embraces ambiguity and uncertainty, allowing for multiple interpretations.