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Update 25/Apr/25: This set is now officially sold out. Thank a million everyone.

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This album was very interesting to shoot from the point of view of a model. I wrote a long post about it that you can find at: https://www.patreon.com/posts/126357763

Second of the series of collaboration with the painter Eoin Llewellyn (www.llewellyn.ie), here's his introduction to it:

"Freud's gaze Is different to gazes that came before . He was born in Berlin and actually took a photograph of Hitler in a Brown shirt march in the 1930s and his family escaped to England . He was Jewish and he is related of course to the psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud. He was a very unusual child and preferred the company of horses to the other children and would often sleep in the stables in his boarding schools. One could possibly venture that he may have been neurodivergent as a person. So his gaze could be that of a Neurodiverse gaze at the figure, hence there is a detachment and removal of the self. The flesh is cold, it is as if it is like meat. It is not romantic, it is not light.

But perhaps in that lies the contemporary nature of Freud's Eye. And while one may see there is the chance for objectification, there is also the chance that something very different is happening . That actually it is a man seeing a woman in her totality, in her completeness as a human being without romanticism.

Degas also did this with his amazing series of women washing themselves. Velazquez's Rokeby Venus , Manet's Le Déjeuner sur l'herbe, Courbet's The origin of the Universe - all have glimpses of confrontation of the female with the public gaze.

It is very rare to have works like this that are created by 2 artists, both myself and the model Vilidian , who herself is also a conduit of sorts of energy and feeling that that imprints on the image.

The studio setting of course is essential to the feeling of this temporary illusion of entering into the light and psychology of Freud's mind and his eye as a painter.

In trying to understand Freud, one may note, that fundamentally post World War II artists could not see reality in the same way. In addition, the question photography posed for the future of depicting reality drove painting into new explorations.

Giacometti, Francis Bacon, Samuel Beckett and Freud were all exploring the question of how to depict the human figure and our experience of reality in new modern ways.

Freud did it not through abstraction but through a kind of brutal truth. His works are stark, naked and fragile many involved up to 80 sessions. He said of his work that he always painted hoping his works would come to life. But when at 80% there he realised it wasn't going to happen. So he would complete the work and start again.

Presence has been achieved in so many of his works imbuing paint with the essence and pulse of human skin and flesh paving the way for a whole new generation of artists such as Jenny Saville."

Eoin Llewellyn

~The album contains 150 photos~

Unusual, absent poses with many overhead shots, four light environments aiming to recreate Lucian Freud's sterile atmospheres where the flesh becomes alive.