Self-Portrait (Great Portland Street, London) #2 by Colin Davidson

Image Size 100 x 40cm, Paper Size 110 x 50cm

Originally shown in Sotheby’s London, Colin Davidson’s ‘Window Self-Portraits’ exhibition expanded on his theme of portraiture in a new and inventive way, by depicting himself as a reflection in the glass of city windows. The play of refracted light, movement and colour create images at once solid and fleeting as surfaces dissolve and space extends and recedes. In this reproduction, we see the artist’s reflection merge with the image of Queen Elizabeth II, placed in a shop window the day after her death in 2022. The artist had been in London, broadcasting with the BBC and talking about his experience of painting the late Queen’s official portrait,  when he capture the image.