Jean-Luc Almond is a prize-winning portrait painter whose images are distorted in order to give them a psychological and emotional depth, representing the polarities of the human condition. In this episode, he talks about his early life in Africa, how he developed his current visual language at art school, how working in care homes influenced his oil paintings, how the texture and materiality of paint itself becomes as important as the representational subject, how he expresses the polarities of the human condition and how he’s been influenced by Victorian post mortem photography.

Jean-Luc Almond talking with Bob Chaundy

Accompanying images on consideringart.com

Diane and Rosa

Neon Woman

Dark Head VI

Phthalo Woman

Embrace

Conference

All images are © Jean-Luc Almond

You can see more of Jean-Luc’s work on his website

Music: Ibiza by MBB | https://soundcloud.com/mbbofficial