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Age: 45
Hometown: Cardiff
Accepts Commissions: Yes
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Number of Visits: 3632
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Background and Lifestyle
| Marital Status |
In a Relationship |
| Smoker |
No |
| Drinker |
Yes |
| Education |
College graduate |
Interests and Personality
| Biography | After doing an arts foundation course in Nelson, Lancashire I was seduced by the theatre and went on to do a degree in Theatre Design at the Welsh College of Music and Drama in Cardiff.
I was waylaid by TV, Theatre and film propmaking for almost 15 years. My chosen medium for my portraiture was originally pastel, but I started working in oils in the late 1990's and haven't picked up my pastels since. However since discovering the joys of digital portaiture using Photoshop my oils too have taken a back seat.
You can find my old website published in the book 'The Perfect Digital Portfolio' by Ava Publishing.
My work has been seen in the 2nd series of BBC's Doctor Who in the episode 'Girl in the Fireplace. I painted the actress Sophia Myles as Madame de Pompadour.
______________Visit my website here....
www.amandaclegg.co.uk |
| Interests | My new house!! Art, Renaissance, Flemish, Elizabethan portraits, Photoshop, Collecting 60s 70s Fashion dolls, computer games, collecting Mexican Retablos, collecting 60's sleazy pulp novels, Gardening, Japanese/Korean horror films, long walks in the country/woodland, Japan, Monkeys, |
| Music | Belle and Sebastian, Kings of Convenience, Kings of Leon, Radiohead, Sigur Ross, Air, Badly Drawn Boy, The Strokes, Flaming Lips, Super Furry Animals, Shakuhachi (Japanese flute music), Arve Henriksen, Clap your Hands Say Yeah, Fratellis, The View, Medieval music, |
| Films | Lord of the Rings trilogy, Name of the Rose, Old Boy, The Eye, Tale of Two Sisters, I'm a sucker for Japanese/Korean horror, |
| Television | CSI, ER, Lost, Carnivale, 24, Buffy, Angel, Boston Legal, Medium, Gardeners World, Grand Designs, X-Files, Lost Room, Prison Break, Shameless, American Gothic, |
| Books | Picture of Dorian Gray, Gormenghast trilogy, Observatory Mansions, Name of the Rose, interior design books are my weakness, |
| Heroes | Holbein, Van Eyck, Botticelli, Cranach, Mark Ryden, Vasey my furry companion of 20 years {R.I.P.}, Mulder and Scully, |
Recently Added Friends
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petenawara
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Posted on: 26th Mar 2007 14:48
Thanks. I really like your work as well, for the same reasons. I enjoy how you keep things simple. Are the red background ones all computer manipulated?
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ursastudio
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Posted on: 25th Mar 2007 5:50
I love your portraits, especially these in gallery 2 (beautiful color, great character observation) and I like how you manage to combine old with modern. Great! Thanks for sharing! Ursula
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enginemonkey
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Posted on: 25th Mar 2007 0:13
Hey Clarebear,
Frida is one of my faves. looking at your pic, painting you wouldn't be much of a chore lol!!
Thankyou too Jarko :D
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Jarko
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Posted on: 24th Mar 2007 22:04
Hi enginemonkey and thanks. I love your fantastic art. Rathie is stunning!:):)
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clarebear
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Posted on: 24th Mar 2007 21:58
I love your style really original, remind me a bit of Frida Kahlo, great colours, compositions and fantasticly imaginative and dreamlike rendering of your subjects...you can paint me any day! Clare
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enginemonkey
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Posted on: 23rd Mar 2007 20:00
Thank you again for your lovely comments.
Hi Pearlrain, they're a kind of homage to my heroes of art history. This kind of art really gets my heart pumping and to paint them is so much more enjoyable and the results far more decorative than your bog standard portrait.
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nancycoffeltart
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Posted on: 22nd Mar 2007 18:43
Gorgeous! So luminous.
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Sarah
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Posted on: 22nd Mar 2007 12:00
Hi, don't forget to email your friends about your new My Art Profile URL! Send them a link to your new page http://www.myartprofile.com/enginemonkey.
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Lockwood
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Posted on: 22nd Mar 2007 9:56
Very fine work. I think the Wedding Diptych in particular is wonderful.
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pearlrain
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Posted on: 22nd Mar 2007 9:28
This might sound really plebian, but are all your portraits sort of like parodies? I like the finesse in these.
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KIRSTY_HARRIS
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Posted on: 22nd Mar 2007 0:56
they are beautiful, brilliant!
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arteology23
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Posted on: 21st Mar 2007 20:50
all with soul.....beautiful portraits
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enginemonkey
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Posted on: 21st Mar 2007 20:15
Thanks for all the kind words. They are much appreciated - we artists need our egos massaging every now and then!
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olgakrause
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Posted on: 21st Mar 2007 20:00
wow
wonderful work engine monkey. You have captured the spirit of the now and feel of the renaissance painters brilliantly. a delight to see.
olgakrause
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Arabarron
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Posted on: 21st Mar 2007 17:38
love the work, arabarron
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Matte
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Posted on: 20th Mar 2007 5:00
Really beautiful portraits, thanks for sharing them. Best, Matte
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BackPorchArt
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Posted on: 20th Mar 2007 1:42
great site.
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KazCreftor
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Posted on: 19th Mar 2007 23:56
beautiful work. Particularly love Sophia Myles as Madame de Pompadour. Welcome to myartprofile :)
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MikeThomas
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Posted on: 19th Mar 2007 23:32
Exellent portrait of sophie miles
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sargeart8
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Posted on: 19th Mar 2007 23:07
E.M. Excellent oils your portrait work is outstanding.welcome to the community.eds
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