I hate the image conjured up when someone mentions "pencil portrait". A lot of the time now you see tacky services operated to produce cheesy and rather kitsch drawings of loved ones, often surrounded by white fades as if the person is a saint or legend. I' am working outside of the walls these pictures might be hung along, as what I' am producing isn't to decorate or even to commemorate a life, it is to make a point, to define that this person is never always happy, and should always be seen in their different lights. Tony Blair is known as a savior to the Kosovan people, war criminal to those that opposed the controversial wars we became engulfed in, and modern pioneer for uniting faiths to work in synchronicity. He wasn't smiling all the time, he wasn't surrounded by a beautiful white glow. But the same time, like Gerald Scarfe might depict him, he wasn't the lurching big earred bossy buffoon neither.
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