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I have spent a lot of time looking at portraiture in the widest sense of the word; the depiction of humans by humans. People have been drawing and sculpting each other since Neolithic times, it was mostly animals that were depicted before that.

I look at these images and then those of early civilizations, through to more recent Old Master portraits and on to the signs and symbols and art works of today. Inevitably a human image acts to some degree as a mirror and also a personal introduction. The interest and fear, attraction and repulsion we feel for others, known and strangers, is carried …