Sam Roffey

Early Career

I used to work as a chef. Learned to cook during Sixth Form when working in a golf and conference centre. My golf remains shocking until this day. I continued to cook whilst studying Philosophy at university, but cooking lost it's appeal in the end.  I cam to painting later in life, but now I'm hooked.

Painting Philosophy

I am utterly engrossed with faces, or at least painting faces. Such enormous variation that catalogues the subtlest diversity, but all with the same anatomical sub-structure. It's all about the passion however; the passion of the face cannot be explained by which type of nose, or what colour eyes, the passion hides itself away, untouched.

Services

I use acrylic paints and at the moment I paint exclusively from a personalised photograph onto ply-board or linen canvas:

A highly passionate and personalised, true-to-life portrait within 6-8 weeks.

Take advantage of my reduced rates starting at £550 for a 24"x18" painting.

The Passion

The only essential attribute of a true portrait is passion. I do not mean that the artists' passion has been captured because he swallops and slurps paint on thickly and incoherently, but rather that the passion of the subject is expressed perfectly.  I always paint a face at least as far as I need to, sometimes more, never less. The eyes are the portals, and sometimes something unseen on a photograph, is unveiled in paint.