Blind Portrait
Blind Portrait
by Daniel Coves
© Daniel Coves
Oil on linen
Daniel Coves undertook a PhD in artistic production and research at Universidad Complutense, Madrid. Coves’s work has been seen group exhibitions in the UK, the Netherlands and the United States. He was previously selected for the BP Portrait Award in 2013 and 2015.
In recent years, Coves has produced a series called Back Portraits in which the sitter’s identity has been hidden, this is the first front-facing portrait the artist has made in many years and the first to reveal the identity of the sitter. In creating this work, Coves was inspired by the painting Woman reading a Letter by Johannes Vermeer.
