Jude Hungerford, The saxophonist (PEOPLE & PORTRAIT 2024)

My portrait is of a very close friend whose world is music. His instruments of choice are the saxophone and keyboard and I wanted to capture the joy and intensity he feels when playing and the world he enters when he concentrates entirely on the sound he is making. I also wanted to show the dynamism associated with the movements of his body together with the instrument combined with the rhythm and colour of the music itself. My aim was to depict the energy of musical sound and the player’s personal absorption through the medium of a two-dimensional image.

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