Vermeer

This series started with a relatively simple work. People often talk about the ‘presence’ that great art has. Johannes Vermeer’s small, but intense paintings certainly fall into such a category. The initial work presented the ‘absence’ of a Vermeer. Clearly a photographic copy of a small part of the Woman at the Virginals painting in the National Gallery in London. Within no time a lengthy series followed that explored the nature of art, image and reproduction, all circling around the iconic images of the seventeenth century Dutchman.