working on a zine

 

Commissioned Portraiture

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commissioned portraiture 

Nostalgia for something that never existed

 

a statement (disappointment disillusionment dismay)

 

Coming to Vienna

 

The cold pane

 

Between the living world

and the world of death

is a clear, cold pane;

a man who looks too close

must fog it with his breath

or hold his breath too long

Wendell Berry

Through a scanner darkly #1

 

πύλη

 

"Can memory ever be made real?"

                                                Brighton          2022

 

Lost cause

 

"This town is crazy,  nobody cares"

Ghosts

 

Jordan - half frame movie

 

    Brighton 2022

Icarus

                                                        Brighton 2022

 

Corvus

 

Crows can remember the faces of individual humans

They can also hold a grudge

Prologue

 

to focus on the beauty or on the cage

                             Brighton       summer       2022

 

to be defeated by greater things

                                                         Brighton 2022

 

Dancing in the street

                                                        Brighton 2022

 

"Let the gods change my dreams, but not my gift of dreaming"

 

   
Fernando Pessoa - The Book of Disquiet

The Band

4x5 contact prints   Brighton 2022

 

This is

 

Miro Miklas Winter 2022

the most beautiful picture I've seen in a long time

John

 

Can you tell me where it hurts?

 

my family and a chair

 

after Man Ray

     acrylic & pencil on photograph 10x8 inches 2019

 

Icarus

gold acrylic on photograph 5x7 inches 2019

 

blue in green

 

inheritance

Chris

 

It was a Saturday morning up where the public land intersects with the golf course. He was sitting smoking a cigarette with a small sandy mongrel by his feet. I was dawdling not wanting to cross the fairway leading to the 18th hole, a little nervous about getting hit in the head with a stray golfball. He said you can cross there - I said I've heard stories of trouble between walkers and golfers. He just shrugged and said there is always a little sandpaper in these situations. 

His use of the word sandpaper made me smile and we struck up a conversation as only two strangers can about people, the landscape and of course the pandemic. He asked what I was doing to which I replied on my way to take yet another picture of the same dead tree I had been photographing for the past year. He asked if I knew of the Japanese painter that did all the views of mount Fuji - Hokusai yes. He pointed to the Amex stadium that sits in one of the undulations of the hills of the South Downs Way. People hate it but I think it's great and I often think about doing that Hokusai thing with it. I agreed it would be a fine thing to do and added that I often find myself revisiting certain places as they seem worth more than one picture and that they reveal more to me each time. 

I asked if I could take his portrait - Normally I say no but as we've been chatting why not. I quickly took a picture and wrote down his email saying I'll send you a scan when I've processed the film.

A week later I emailed the picture and he replied - only the third photo of me I've liked since I was 11 years old and I would like a print.

you were a locked room

 

Silver gelatin

Ilford Multigrade FB warmtone

Slowly printing the series "Don't let them sell you the impossible dream"    2019-2021.

For print sales and enquiries please contact me via email.

andrewhillard@gmail.com

 

St Ann's well

 

even on days when nothing happens part 2

 

spoonman (steal the rhythm while you can)

Half frame movie - the birds

 

half frame movie