“The head, the face, the lines and features, contain everything for the painter who understands well enough to put it down.”

—  Patrick Swift

Nano Reid (1950)
Context: Nano Reid does not begin a portrait with any ideas about the person she draws. She is concerned with the head, its existence as a structure with certain characteristics. She is so much concerned with this that her portraits are inevitably deep studies of character and personality. The head, the face, the lines and features, contain everything for the painter who understands well enough to put it down.

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