"I've been a portrait sculptor for years," says Jane Robbins, of Shrewsbury, Shropshire, UK. A single mother, she says she is "always on a crust," running from one commission to another - "I'm mommy and daddy! I'm it!"
Not for nothing. Robbins runs from one commission to another because her sensitive portraits are in demand. But that is work which she now calls "nice stylized realistic portraits," and her modus operandi is about to change. Robbins has recently joined portrait painter Mark Gilbert as Artist-in-Residence of the Facial Surgery Research Foundation, founded in 2000 by maxillofacial surgeon Iain Hutchison, of St Bart's and the Royal London Hospital.
"Now that's worthwhile," thought Robbins when she learned of Gilbert's work, "because it makes a business of doing portraits that mean something!"Read the complete profile >>
7/13/2004 09:43:18 AM
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