Artisan Name: Glenn Ibbitson
Description: Figure drawing and Landscape painting in a realistic idiom. Portraiture to commission.

Profile: On a formal level the life drawings synthesise tone and line to describe volume and structure; the technical skill employed presents a counterpoint to contemporary celebrity-driven culture of the perfect body by depicting ordinary people with their myriad physical imperfections. The isolated figure; vulnerable and self-absorbed, is often observed as a foreshortened scape in which peculiar details have been carefully depicted; the asymmetry of a pair of ears, the angle one toe makes with its neighbour, the pull of flesh between finger and thumb, the sideways fall of a breast under its own particular weight.
The landscapes are a direct response to the light and weather conditions on the varied upland terrain of the three south-western counties of Wales. The viewpoints adopted are those of any birdwatcher, either low down at bracken level for camouflage, or at the edge of raised ground to give an overview. A land of tumuli and stone circles; crossed by deeply rutted tracks and barbed wire.

Location: Wales
Website: www.glennart.co.uk