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David Cobley (27 June 1954) is an English portrait and figure painter and founder of Bath Artists' Studios.

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All of us take an interest, to a greater or lesser extent, in what people around us look like, what they are doing, and why they are doing it.

Extent, Interest, Like, Looks, People

People fascinate me. Consciously or unconsciously, I have been studying their behavior all my life.

Consciously, Humanity, Life, People, Study, Studying

Sometimes, in a portrait, I go straight in with paint onto canvas. . . Other than riding my bike up and down the hills around here, it is the most dangerous thing I do. . . like tightrope-walking without a safety net!

Hills, Onto, Portraits, Riding, Safety, Straight

As a boy, I used to look at reproductions of Rembrandt's portraits. . . the people in his paintings were so real I felt I knew them. . . It is his empathy for the sitter, combined with his enjoyment and dexerity in handling paint that captured my imagination then, and is what I am striving for still.

Boys, Combined, Imagination, Look, Real

Painting someone's portrait is, of course, an impossible task. What an absurd idea to try and distil a human being, the most complex organism on the planet, into flicks, washes, and blobs of paint on a two-dimensional surface.

Distil, Ideas, Painting, Trying, Two, Washes

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Pat Falvey

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Low Thia Khiang

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Mary Edwards Walker

W. I. Thomas

W. I. Thomas

Tanya Tucker

Tanya Tucker

Frankie Andreu

Frankie Andreu

Rafael Eitan

Rafael Eitan

Fern Britton

Fern Britton

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Lewis Carroll

Sharon Pratt Kelly

Sharon Pratt Kelly

Ishmael Reed

Ishmael Reed

C.E. Murphy

C.E. Murphy