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SINEAD O'CONNOR. FAITH AND COURAGE. JUNE 2000.
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"Faith and Courage" is the title of
the new album by Sinead O'Connor
and is the first album by Sinead for
Atlantic records, USA. I love Sinead;
she is an absolute joy to work with;
she is smart, intelligent, well-read,
witty and deeply sensitive; dropdead
gorgeous and very artistic. A truly
extraordinary talent. Most of all she
trusts me as an artist, treats me with
respect and gives me free rein to
express myself.
I have always wanted to draw her
and this time I got the chance to do
it when Sinead asked me to do the
cover of her new album. The title and
the music inspired the front cover,
which I interpreted from the music as
revelatory. The back cover portrait,
where I sought to capture an iconic kind
of sublime serenity, took weeks of drawing
and redrawing to get the effect I was after.
The problem with the medium I choose -chalk and pastel -is
that it is such a delicate technique: if you get it right,
it looks amazing; if you don't it looks crap. As you can see
from the various stages of the work shown here, things went
a bit pear-shaped before I finally got it right. ( That does
not include two other versions that were consigned to the
trash ! ). The finished artwork for the front is a work I
am extremely proud of; it works well as a cover for an exquisite
album -but personally I think the portrait of Sinead on the
back is one of my best works. Time will tell.
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