Allan O'Marra's
Lush Gravitas

 

Lush Gravitas is an ongoing series of paintings on which I am working, the first four of which were in my FACES show at Station Gallery, Whitby in fall 2014. These oil on canvas paintings are 44” x 40” (vertical or horizontal format), of the close-cropped faces 0f young females painted in a hyper-real style—the reference photos mostly found on the online Flickr photography site. In each case, I contact the photographer (typically amateur and often a parent of the child) to get their permission before using the image. I plan to paint 20 in the series by late summer of 2015. I am including those I have completed so far.

 

'Solene', 2016, oil on canvas, 40" x 44"

'Mercy-Amelia', 2016, oil on canvas, 44" x 40"

'Anne', 2016, oil on canvas, 44" x 40"

'Matilda (Homage to Vermeer)', 2015, oil on canvas, 44" x 40"

'Grace', 2015, oil on canvas, 44" x 40"

'Claire', 2015, 40" x 44", oil on canvas

'Lily-Soul', 2015, 44" x 40", oil on canvas

'Diana (Mon Amie)', 2015, oil on canvas, 44" x 40"

'Princess Tilley', 2015, oil on canvas, 44" x 40"

'Flavie (ma Cherie)', 2014, oil on canvas, 40" x 44"

'Esther', 2014, oil on canvas, 44" x 40"

'Simona', 2014, oil on canvas, 44" x 40"

'Iona-Rose', 2014, oil on canvas, 44" x 40"

'Julia-Muse', 2014, oil on canvas, 44" x 40"

'Amanda', 2014, oil on canvas, 40" x 44"

'Field-Leila', 2014. oil on canvas, 40" x 44"

'Old Soul-Jeanne', 2014, oil on canvas, 44" x 44"

'The Original Face of My Beloved Before I Was Born', 2014, oil on canvas, 44" x 40"

Two of the 'Lush Gravitas' paintings on exhibition--to show scale