With nothing except for a vest and predominant colour swatch to pick between them and to serve as a visual conduit, ‘Red Head’ is the latest collective illustrative thought and deed in celebrated contemporary figurative artist, Fletcher Sibthorp’s most recent journey viewed here.

An active one third of the artist’s all-consuming and considered study of the male head, this spectacularly and intentionally red hued version of events is unapologetically stark, uncompromising and confrontational to the naked eye, aided and abetted by the lead male’s follicle-bereft skull and stern complexions and layers of facial features beneath.

An injection and infusion of both light and reflection of a natural nature and leaning take ‘Red Head’ to another place again, a destination that’s always dramatic, towering and never one to shy away from the painted hostilities that even the greatest of compositions can manifest, intentionally or otherwise.