Tanya Andrew
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Scapegoat, 2015, coincided with a new direction in my painting practice as I attempted to explore this relationship through portraiture. Our first experience of another looking at us will be of our (m)other’s gaze, what we see in others and how we reflect our emotions back to them, begins with the maternal gaze and this relationship shapes our experience of being human. Capturing the gaze of another’s face has been a learning curve in technique. The attentiveness and patience required to learn a new skill and remain committed to the process has been equally rewarding and frustrating.
For Scapegoat, I worked on a painting titled Pan, a reference to the greek god of nature considered half goat half man, whose distinctive features later became associated to that of the devil, the christian scapegoat for all that is evil and tempting.


Series 6.2 w43 h74 eco pigment on wood
Series 6.1 w40 h70 eco pigment on wood
Series 5.2 w40 h40 eco pigment on canvas
Series 5.1 w40 h40 eco pigment on canvas
Series 3.2 w30 h64 eco pigment on canvas
Series 3.1 w30 h64 eco pigment on canvas
Series 2.2 w60 h60 oil on canvas board
Series 2.1 w60 h60 oil on canvas board
Series 1.3 w90 h60 eco pigment on canvas
Series 1.2 w90 h60 eco pigment on canvas
Series 1.1 w90 h60 eco pigment on canvas
Series 9 W90 H60 Eco pigment on canvas
Series 8.1 w90 H60 eco pigment on canvas
Series 8.2 W90 H60 Eco pigment on canvas
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