Mark Dalessio wins £35,000 Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer Portrait Award
2026
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*American/French artist Marc Dalessio has won the £35,000 Herbert Smith
Freehills Kramer Portrait Award 2026*. He was presented with at an Awards
Ceremony ...
19 hours ago

7 comments:
I love your work. Is that oil paint?
Yes it is. In the first one.
Obviously the others are drawings.
I could make oil paintings painstakingly photorealistically look like drawings, but that would be weird.
Maybe a little weird.
Ans as artists, the last thing we want to be is weird.
Oh,,ho,,ho,,ho,,ho...ohhhh..."Woolly Bullies"...no word to decribe a piece of art like that...my heart pounded.
A simple love it!
you amazed me onec more...
I enjoy the fact that this is not a southern European, masculine minotaur, with hard eyes and snarling lips, but more of an English Minotaur, with all the power of a half-ton animal, but with the doe eyed simplicity and sad face of a cow.
I think it captures something I've seen in wrestlers faces too, the look of simplicity which belies hostile intent. They are not sharp and cunning like a fox or a rat, but dumb and soft headed like a cow. They look like they'd rather give you a hug than a bodyslam.
Wow. Fantastic work.
Incredible.
-Boz
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