Lockdown Gouache No. 0, 2020, Gouache on paper,
30 x 20 cm
Lockdown Gouache No. 1, 2020, Gouache on paper,
30 x 20 cm
Lockdown Gouache No. 2, 2020, Gouache on paper,
30 x 21 cm
Lockdown Gouache No. 3, 2020, Gouache on paper,
30 x 21 cm
Lockdown Gouache No. 4, 2020, Gouache on paper,
30 x 21 cm
Lockdown Gouache No. 5, 2020, Gouache on paper,
30 x 21 cm
Lockdown Gouache No. 6, 2020, Gouache on paper,
30 x 21 cm
Lockdown Gouache No. 7, 2020, Gouache on paper,
30 x 21 cm
Lockdown Gouache No. 8, 2020, Gouache on paper,
30 x 21 cm
Lockdown Gouache No. 9, 2020, Gouache on paper,
30 x 21 cm
Lockdown Gouache No. 10, 2020, Gouache on paper,
30 x 21 cm
Lockdown Gouache No. 11, 2020, Gouache on paper,
30 x 21 cm
Lockdown Gouache No. 12, 2020, Gouache on paper,
30 x 21.5 cm
Lockdown Gouache No. 13, 2020, Gouache on paper,
30 x 21 cm
Lockdown Gouache No. 14, 2020, Gouache on paper,
30 x 21 cm
Lockdown Gouache No. 15, 2020, Gouache on paper,
30 x 21 cm
Lockdown Gouache No. 16, 2020, Gouache on paper,
30 x 21 cm
Lockdown Gouache No. 17, 2020, Gouache on paper,
30 x 21 cm
Lockdown Gouache No. 18, 2020, Gouache on paper,
30 x 21 cm
Lockdown Gouache No. 19, 2020, Gouache on paper,
30 x 21 cm
Lockdown Gouache No. 20, 2020, Gouache on paper,
30 x 21 cm
Lockdown Gouache No. 21, 2020, Gouache on paper,
30 x 19.5 cm
Lockdown Gouache No. 22, 2020, Gouache on paper,
30 x 21 cm
Lockdown Gouache No. 23, 2020, Gouache on paper,
30 x 21 cm
Lockdown Gouache No. 24, 2020, Gouache on paper,
30 x 21 cm
Lockdown Gouache No. 25, 2020, Gouache on paper,
30 x 21 cm
Lockdown Gouache No. 26, 2020, Gouache on paper,
30 x 21 cm
Lockdown Gouache No. 27, 2020, Gouache on paper,
30 x 19.2 cm
Lockdown Gouache No. 28, 2020, Gouache on paper,
30 x 21 cm
Lockdown Gouache No. 29, 2020, Gouache on paper,
30 x 21 cm
Lockdown Gouache No. 30, 2020, Gouache on paper,
30 x 21 cm
Lockdown Gouache No. 31, 2020, Gouache on paper,
30 x 21 cm
Lockdown Gouache No. 32, 2020, Gouache on paper,
30 x 21 cm
Lockdown Gouache No. 33, 2020, Gouache on paper,
30 x 21 cm
Lockdown Gouache No. 34, 2020, Gouache on paper,
30 x 21 cm
Lockdown Gouache No. 35, 2020, Gouache on paper,
30 x 21 cm
Lockdown Gouache No. 36, 2020, Gouache on paper,
30 x 21 cm
Lockdown Gouache No. 37, 2020, Gouache on paper,
30 x 22 cm
Lockdown Gouache No. 38, 2020, Gouache on paper,
30 x 21 cm
Lockdown Gouache No. 39, 2020, Gouache on paper,
30 x 21.5 cm
Lockdown Gouache No. 40, 2020, Gouache on paper,
30 x 21 cm
Lockdown Gouache No. 41, 2020, Gouache on paper,
30 x 21 cm
Lockdown Gouache No. 42, 2020, Gouache on paper,
30 x 20 cm
Lockdown Gouache No. 43, 2020, Gouache on paper,
30 x 20 cm
Lockdown Gouache No. 44, 2020, Gouache on paper,
30 x 21 cm
Lockdown Gouache No. 45, 2020, Gouache on paper,
30 x 21 cm
Lockdown Gouache No. 46, 2020, Gouache on paper,
30 x 21 cm
Lockdown Gouache No. 47, 2020, Gouache on paper,
30 x 21 cm
Lockdown Gouache No. 48, 2020, Gouache on paper,
30 x 20.5 cm
Lockdown Gouache No. 49, 2020, Gouache on paper,
30 x 21 cm
Lockdown Gouache No. 50, 2020, Gouache on paper,
30 x 21 cm
Lockdown Gouache No. 51, 2020, Gouache on paper,
30 x 21 cm
Lockdown Gouache No. 52, 2020, Gouache on paper,
30 x 21 cm
Lockdown Gouache No. 53, 2021, gouache on paper, 30 x 21 cm
Lockdown Gouache No. 54, 2021, gouache on paper, 30 x 21 cm
Lockdown Gouache No. 55, 2021, gouache on paper, 30 x 21 cm
Lockdown Gouache No. 56, 2021, gouache on paper, 30 x 21 cm
Lockdown Gouache No. 57, 2021, gouache on paper, 30 x 21 cm
Lockdown Gouache No. 58, 2021, gouache on paper, 30 x 21 cm
Lockdown Gouache No. 59, 2021, gouache on paper, 30 x 21 cm
Lockdown Gouache No. 60, 2021, gouache on paper, 30 x 21 cm
Lockdown Gouache No. 61, 2021, gouache on paper, 30 x 21 cm
Lockdown Gouache No. 62, 2021, gouache on paper, 30 x 21 cm
Lockdown Gouache No. 63, 2021, gouache on paper, 30 x 21 cm
Lockdown Gouache No. 64, 2021, gouache on paper, 30 x 21 cm
Lockdown Gouache No. 65, 2021, gouache on paper, 30 x 19 cm
Lockdown Gouache No. 66, 2021, gouache on paper, 30 x 21 cm
Lockdown Gouache No. 67, 2021, gouache on paper, 30 x 21 cm
Lockdown Gouache No. 68, 2021, gouache on paper, 30 x 21 cm
Lockdown Gouache No. 69, 2021, gouache on paper, 30 x 21.5 cm
Lockdown Gouache No. 70, 2021, gouache on paper, 30 x 21 cm
Lockdown Gouache No. 71, 2021, gouache on paper, 30 x 21 cm
Lockdown Gouache No. 72, 2021, gouache on paper, 30 x 21 cm
Lockdown Gouache No. 73, 2021, gouache on paper, 30 x 21 cm
Lockdown Gouache No. 74, 2021, gouache on paper, 30 x 21 cm
Lockdown Gouache No. 75, 2021, gouache on paper, 30 x 21 cm
Lockdown Gouache No. 76, 2021, gouache on paper, 30 x 21 cm
Lockdown Gouache No. 77, 2021, gouache on paper, 30 x 21 cm
Lockdown Gouache No. 78, 2021, gouache on paper, 30 x 21.5 cm
Lockdown Gouache No. 79, 2021, gouache on paper, 30 x 19 cm
Lockdown Gouache No. 80, 2021, gouache on paper, 30 x 21 cm
Lockdown Gouache No. 81, 2021, gouache on paper, 30 x 21 cm
Lockdown Gouache No. 82, 2021, gouache on paper, 30 x 21 cm
Lockdown Gouache No. 83, 2021, gouache on paper, 30 x 21 cm
Lockdown Gouache No. 84, 2022, gouache on paper, 30 x 21 cm
Lockdown Gouache No. 85, 2022, gouache on paper, 30 x 21 cm
Lockdown Gouache No. 86, 2022, gouache on paper, 30 x 21 cm
Lockdown Gouache No. 87, 2022, gouache on paper, 30 x 22.5 cm
Lockdown Gouache No. 88, 2022, gouache on paper, 30 x 21.5 cm
Lockdown Gouache No. 89, 2022, gouache on paper, 30 x 21 cm
Lockdown Gouache No. 90, 2022, gouache on paper, 30 x 21 cm
Lockdown Gouache No. 91, 2022, gouache on paper, 30 x 21.5 cm
Lockdown Gouache No. 92, 2022, gouache on paper, 30 x 22.5 cm
Lockdown Gouache No. 93, 2022, gouache on paper, 30 x 22 cm
Lockdown Gouache No. 94, 2022, gouache on paper, 30 x 21 cm
Lockdown Gouache No. 95, 2022, gouache on paper, 30 x 21 cm
Lockdown Gouache No. 96, 2022, gouache on paper, 30 x 21 cm
Lockdown Gouache No. 97, 2022, gouache on paper, 30 x 21.5 cm
Lockdown Gouache No. 98, 2022, gouache on paper, 30 x 21 cm
Lockdown Gouache No. 99, 2022, gouache on paper, 30 x 21 cm
Lockdown Gouache No. 100, 2022, gouache on paper, 30 x 21.5 cm
Lockdown Gouache No. 101, 2022, gouache on paper, 30 x 19 cm
Lockdown Gouache No. 102, 2022, gouache on paper, 30 x 20.5 cm
Lockdown Gouache No. 103, 2022, gouache on paper, 30 x 20 cm
Lockdown Gouache No. 104, 2022, gouache on paper, 30 x 19.5 cm
Lockdown Gouache No. 105, 2022, gouache on paper, 30 x 21 cm
Lockdown Gouache No. 106, 2022, gouache on paper, 30 x 21 cm
Lockdown Gouache No. 107, 2022, gouache on paper, 30 x 21 cm
Lockdown Gouache No. 108, 2022, gouache on paper, 30 x 22 cm
Lockdown Gouache No. 109, 2022, gouache on paper, 30 x 22 cm
These images were made during the Coronavirus lockdown when I couldn’t get to my new studio in South London and had to work on a small scale at home with limited materials.
Many of the images were taken from Egyptian mummy portraits which acted as a starting point and then went through many changes before I found something I was happy with. The original portraits vary tremendously in sophistication, but what I took from many of them was the insistency of the outward gaze – as if the dead are reaching out to us and demanding to be recognised and remembered. This seemed particularly poignant during lockdown when the death toll from victims of Covid 19 began to escalate and their portraits were shown on the news with loved ones prevented from going through a natural process of mourning and unable to hold a proper funeral.