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The Hungarian Dancer (2007)
      
   12 Oils                    4 Drawings

This collection of twelve oil paintings and four large drawings is based on a short film I made of a Hungarian girl dancing naked in my studio.

From several still frames, I did a great many drawings, studies and small colour sketches to use as source material.

I have not reinvented any of the lines, shapes or forms but selected only those I felt were the essential ones and put two, often three, overlapping positions together to try and describe the energy and rhythm of her movement.

Although I have kept to the realistic gradations of light and shade, I have deliberately used my own set of colours to create a visual interpretation of the music.

I am an artist who has spent almost all his life drawing and painting as well as, for the past twenty seven years, working as a film director. Now, for the first time, I have brought all these disciplines together in this collection.