Portrait in Sepia by Christine Comyn

A towering virtuoso performance, a headshot to end all headshots, all wrapped in melancholy, longing and conjugation, whilst ultimately sealed and presented in sepia tints.

Greys, neutrally-aspired abbreviations, shapes, shadows and distressed locks a ’tumbling and cascading, securing the privacy of one’s face and masking very real emotions. Christine Comyn is the past master at originating and visually determining a range of emotions and moods in often, the most transient and pictorial shortcomings of female figures.

Her latest outing, ‘Portrait in Sepia’ doesn’t falter on this score, producing a manifestly glowing study of potential fear and loathing, yet from the blueprint of only the shallowest of detailing and visual pronunciation.