A bespoke seated portrait of a Mason at his working bench, built to commission. The work is portraiture in the traditional register: the sitter is named, the lodge is named, the symbolic elements drawn into the composition belong to that particular Mason's life and degree work.

Approach

Portrait commissions of this kind are accepted only after a conversation with the sitter, and frequently with the sitter's lodge. Symbolic elements appropriate to the sitter's grade work, lodge, jewel, and personal practice are drawn into the composition with the same discipline applied to a piece of regalia: nothing is decorative. Each object in the frame is there because it belongs to the sitter or to the symbolic context the sitter has named.

The reference photography is supplied by the sitter or arranged through the atelier. The painted work is built from those references and from agreed source documents.

Use

A commissioned portrait of this kind is a long-form work. It is sized for the sitter's library, lodge gift, or family collection.

Acquisition

Acquisition is by commission only. Scope, dimensions, and timeline are confirmed in writing before work begins.

Inquire to begin a commission conversation.