Polymath: Presence - Charisma, allure, character — such terms are commonly summoned in the attempt to define presence, yet here they fall short of what the image quietly demands. This is presence in its most distilled form: unconscious, unperformed, and entirely undeniable. To look upon this portrait is to feel the pull of deep time — as though one has stepped through the canvas into the luminous world of the Italian Renaissance, into the company of Raphael, Botticelli, Perugino, or Leonardo da Vinci himself. There is something of that lineage alive here; a quality of mind made visible, of inner life pressing through the surface of the skin. Rendered in monochrome, the image is both heightened and stilled. The palette stripped away, what remains is pure form, pure feeling. The work pays deliberate homage to sfumato — the Renaissance technique of dissolving contour into atmosphere, of allowing the figure to emerge as though from shadow rather than be drawn against it — a method most extraordinarily mastered by da Vinci, and one that here lends the subject an almost mythic softness.

Limited Edition Archival Inkjet Giclée Print.

Available in four sizes;

• 46cm x 46cm - 18" x 18" (Includes border) Edition of 3.

• 68cm x 68cm - 26 3/4" x 26 3/4" (Includes border) Edition of 3

• 90cm x 90cm - 35 1/2" x 35 1/2" (Includes border) Edition of 3.

• 107cm x 107cm - 42" x 42" (Includes border) Edition of 3.

Print only, no frame included.

*The total number of prints included in a Limited Edition includes all sizes listed as available. For example, there may be 25 in one size and 10 in another, this means there are 35 prints in the edition.