Hazel Pickering

Reserve £850.00 - ‘Defoe in action’

Mixed media (gouache and charcoal)

Framed – 830 mm x 840 mm (including frame)

As a portrait artist, people watching is second nature to me, it presents me with endless subject matter.  As a sports enthusiast, I have become increasingly interested in depicting in my paintings the energy, the passions and the characters seen on the sports field.

I paint in acrylic, watercolour, gouache, charcoal and pastel and more often than not in a combination of several of these to obtain the immediacy of effect I am looking for to transcribe my subject to canvas.

In this painting for 'Canvassing Spurs' I had the dual problem of trying to show the furious energy yet also the effortless skills and calm calculation shown by Jermain Defoe the athlete.