Self portraiture is an important part of my painting.
I painted a lot of self portraits when I started painting and it’s probably the area of painting that interests me the most. I love looking at other artists’ self portraits, especially artists who usually paint abstract work. For obvious reasons, when you’re starting out painting, painting your own portrait affords you great freedom, logistically, and also from the chains of other people’s opinions on how you’ve painted them. I remember someone accusing me of vanity for painting self portraits, which shows a real misunderstanding of what is involved with turning an eye on yourself. I often like to reevaluate where I am with my painting by painting a self portrait.
The paintings here are a selection of the many self portraits I’ve produced in the 11 years I’ve been painting.
Read an essay by Bo Gorzelak Pedersen, artist, writer and art critic for Danish art paper Kunstavisen, about my self portraits HERE (scroll to end of page).
2021
Self portrait, post psychosis
(50 x 40 cm, heavy body acrylic on board)
on loan to the COLLECTION BETHLEM MUSEUM OF THE MIND
Self portrait, red hair
(50 x 40 cm, heavy body acrylic on board)
2019
Self in black and white
(40 x 30 cm, heavy body acrylic)
2018
Self portrait, autumn
(40 x 30 cm, heavy body acrylic on canvas)
2017
Self portrait, winter
(40 x 30 cm, heavy body acrylic on canvas)
PRISEMAN SEABROOK COLLECTION
Self portrait, spring
(50 x 40 cm, heavy body acrylic on canvas)
2016
Self portrait with night-blooming jasmine
(40 x 30 cm, heavy body acrylic on canvas)
2015
Self portrait, autumn
(50 x 40 cm, heavy body acrylic on board)
Self portrait, listening to the rain
(40 x 30 cm, heavy body acrylic on canvas)
Self portrait, winter
(40 x 30 cm, heavy body acrylic on canvas)
2014
Self portrait
(40 x 50 cm, heavy body acrylic on board)
Self portrait, summer
(40 x 50 cm, heavy body acrylic on canvas)
Self portrait, spring
(30 x 40 cm, heavy body acrylic on canvas)
Self portrait
(60 x 50 cm, heavy body acrylic on canvas)
2013
Self portrait, autumn
(50 x 40 cm, heavy body acrylic on board)
Self in red
(40 x 30 cm, heavy body acrylic on board)
Harvest, self portrait
(62 x 76 cm, heavy body acrylic on canvas)
Unfinished self portrait
(dedicated to the late artist Conrad Mecheski who suggested I leave it unfinished)
(50 x 40 cm, heavy body acrylic on canvas)
Self portrait in yellow dress
(50 x 40 cm, heavy body acrylic on board)
Self portrait with apple
(50 x 40 cm, heavy body acrylic on board)
Self portrait, sketch
(40 x 30 cm, heavy body acrylic on canvas)
2012
La Tristesse
(40 x 50 cm, heavy body acrylic on canvas)
Self portrait as Russian Futurist
(50 x 40 cm, heavy body acrylic on board)
Self portrait for my own private revolution
(62 x 76 cm, heavy body acrylic on canvas)
Self portrait as painter
(50 x 40 cm, heavy body acrylic on canvas)
Fionn Wilson 