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Winning self-portrait almost like looking into a mirror


been named the winner of the 2012 Dobell Festival of Art, Craft and Photography oil section. Ms Linton is


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a professional portrait painter from Quorrobolong and paints pet and horse portraits, as well as people. T e Archibald Prize


entrant regularly paints models who pose for a group of artists, and her self-portrait was created as an entry for an exhibition put on by that group . Like an Archibald


entry, the portrait was created largely from life, rather than all from a photo. A photo was used for the pose, but then the colours and detailing were gathered from painting herself side-lit in a mirror. “I didn’t care if it wasn’t fl attering,” Ms


Linton said. “I wanted to show me in the act of


painting – to make the viewer feel I was about to place a brushstroke and have a colourful and lifelike portrait. “In everyday life I usually wear glasses,


ake Macquarie artist Sue Linton’s self- portrait has


SUE LINTON AND HER WINNING SELF-PORTRAIT


but I need to paint without them, so the portrait is painted minus glasses.” Ms Linton’s mother Betty Linton, who


featured in her Archibald entry for last year, was responsible for starting the movement to preserve William Dobell’s house in Wangi after he died.


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Wednesday, May 16, 2012


The Newcastle Post


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