Head Tilting Forwards II

Claude Heath is a painter and mixed media artist. He studied Philosophy initially and this background has influenced his approach to art. His practice centres on process and in particular explores the act of drawing. This is one of a series of portraits the inspiration for which is rooted in experiments of the mid 1990s. It was then that he first drew a life-cast of his brother's head, blindfold, using touch alone to experience and record the contours of the face. His drawings were made on paper using a small piece of Blu-tack to begin the lines from. Heath describes his tactile approach as, 'closing the gap between feeling and seeing', or, 'making images that are like Braille but for the sighted'. Here the cast was tilted forward and drawn with a multi-coloured biro in random sequence. The tracery of interconnecting lines has been reduced to a series of points and crosses which still retains a sense of the three dimensional form of the face, as well as the movement of the marks.