Striking charcoal portraits of 12 men currently adorn the walls of an art gallery near Norwich Cathedral.
The Saints exhibition at the Crypt Gallery features James Kessell’s 12 large portraits of male family and friends who have either Biblical or Saints’ names.
James, who moved to Norwich in 2017, wanted to capture the internal characters of his subjects rather than just an external likeness.
He said: “I set out to capture something of their inner self and of course my own insights and responses to them as people I know and love.”
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Saints is the eighth exhibition of James' artwork that has featured in Norwich and is the third in a series of works completed using charcoal.
The first contained a piece commemorating the 1966 Aberfan disaster, with the other being a self-portrait displayed in this exhibition.
James said the portraits are exposed rather than in a frame to help bring them to life. He said doing this allows scope to develop them further as living works.
The exhibition had a private opening on Saturday, April 22 and will run until Saturday, April 29.
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