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Harp Player
By Marc Alexander from his ‘Touch’ exhibition. ‘Harp Player’, Pencil on 300g Archival Paper, 10cm by 14cm, (2013).
Harp Player
Having begun her career at an early age, the Johannesburg harp player is fully established performer with unlimited experience. Not only did she reach the top 18 of South Africa’s Got Talent, but she joined the Johannesburg Philharmonic Orchestra at only 15 years old and consequently been part of several Orchestras in South Africa. The harpist has collaborated with many artists as well as Mercedes Benz Fashion Week for Marianne Fassler, Game of Thrones International Launch of Season 6, Celebrity High Tea at The Rosa, Palazzo Hotel and many other high profile events.
Touch Series
After a long season of producing portraits in oils, I returned for a while to the humble pencil. The ‘Touch’ exhibition, which opened at the Studio Gallery Kalk Bay on Friday June 14th 2013 and ran until July 3rd, was the result of that experience – a true celebration of the beauty and expressiveness of the human hand.
Several months before this show, a group of us artists got together in the studio to work on life drawings, and for me, hands are one of the most difficult parts of the human body to draw, so I decided to master this challenge by producing one hundred detailed drawings. Friends, family and even casual acquaintances, modeled their hands for me and in each drawing I tried to capture the unique character of each individual.
A great deal could be learned about a person just by observing their hands. For example, the slight hand gestures of a person in love, or the anxious mannerisms of the addicted smoker clutching his last cigarette, or the telltale scars and callouses which belong to a hard working laborer. The hands are young and old, lined and smooth and endlessly expressive and tell a hundred stories which are all captured in my hyper-realistic style.
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