Black linework tattoo of a geometric faceted portrait of a woman wearing a flower crown, above a wreath of roses, on the upper arm.

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Geometric portrait with rose wreath on upper arm

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The tattoo shows a faceted, geometric portrait of a woman with her hair swept back and wearing a crown of roses, with a row of larger roses and leaves beneath her shoulders. The design uses bold black outlines and hatched lines to build up the planes of the face and hair, with no shading or colour. The portrait is centred on the upper arm, and the rose wreath fills the lower part of the composition.

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Dear Nell,

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You were right about the Ashworth commission. Mrs Dunmore wanted her mother's face in the north window, but my first cartoon kept coming out soft, all rounded cheeks, and the glass would not forgive it. So on Tuesday I took the pencil to the drawing board and broke the face into planes the way you break a lead line into panels. Every cheek became a blade, every shadow a fan of hatching. By the fourth draft I could see the woman through the angles, and she was looking straight past me as if she had heard a better joke than mine.

The roses were the difficult part. Mrs Dunmore kept asking for them bigger, then smaller, then bigger again, until on Thursday she stood in the workshop doorway with a fistful of cut stems from her garden and said they belonged on the crown and nowhere else. We laid the blooms across the bench and drew them one by one, each petal a single firm curve with nothing angular about them at all. I think that is why the piece works. The face is all argument and the flowers are all agreement.

When the cartoon was finished, Mrs Dunmore held it up against the daylight and went quiet for so long that Mr Pryce asked if she needed a chair. She only said that her mother would have hated being made of straight lines, and then she asked us to hang the panel facing the street.

I still have the offcut with the wreath traced on it. Come up at the weekend and I will show you.

Love, Ruth

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