Milne Publishing is proud to present Artist Talk Magazine issue number 20 and is dedicated to showcasing the Next Generation of art, which are current students or students who have graduated within the past 3 years

Everyone featured within this issue have given interesting, in-depth, honest accounts about themselves, their work, views and ideas. In addition to the amazing images of the work they have produced, which I know you the reader will enjoy and be inspired by. Thank you to everyone who entered our open call. 

The cover of this issue is by Helena Orwell, titled Late night bathroom self-portrait,

Sometimes I look in the mirror and feel like painting me, mainly because of the aesthetics or because my face expresses something that needs to be given a way out. This usually happens at the bathroom’s mirror, at night, so I would then get my brushes, paper, oil paint tubes, turpentine oil and a plate in order to start the creative process.

The final result is unpredictable, like this one, an expressionist portrait with an hypnotic gaze I get lost in and get transferred to the day I straightened my hair and had to get used to my new reflection.

My technique is just to paint what I see, I follow the lines of the image in front of me, I basically use two blues, a red and an ochre, and white of course. However, from a simple setting and palette, the once finished portrait usually captivates me as if I had freed a latent image waiting to be brought to life; the more intense and truthful the feeling in my inside, the more it is translated into the painting.

Thank you to everyone involved.

Grant Milne,
Founder of Artist Talk Magazine

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