The great Irish poet Seamus Heaney said, upon seeing a portrait of himself, "It's more like me than I am." This might be the case of most of my self-portraits, which nevertheless continue as a useful exercise in the time of the plague. Painting the same landscape under different circumstances, like Monet's grain stacks, can a be beneficial for the artist. The same goes for a head or a face. For this portrait, I took my inspiration from Bonnard's self-portraits where he seems to be looking into a bathroom mirror, though whether he actually painted them in the bathroom, is unknown. He tended to paint from imagination most of the time. This one I painted in front of the bathroom mirror. 12x9 inches, oil on linen.
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