Larnelle Chambers / Visual curation
Series & Studies
Portraits in conversation: flowers and ornament, red fields, words and gestures. Three curated groups of related works, arranged for looking rather than by date.
Related works / 4 portraits
Botanical Portraits
Flowers, butterflies, and ornamental lines gather around the portrait. Across these four works, the figure moves between an open colour field and a surface almost completely occupied by marks.
Look across the groupCompare the green space around Green Oracle and Sunflower Witness with the close flowers of Sunflower Apparition, then the dense black, white, and gold of Nocturne Bloom. Look at where ornament crosses from the surrounding field onto the figure.
Acrylic, graphite, ink, and metallic paint
Green Oracle
A frontal figure set against green, where butterflies, gold accents, and white gestural markings turn ornament into a living field.
Acrylic, graphite, ink, and metallic paint
Sunflower Witness
A green and gold portrait where sunflowers, white linework, and a centered gaze create a bright, ceremonial stillness.
Graphite, acrylic, and metallic paint
Sunflower Apparition
A graphite and paint portrait framed by gold sunflowers, balancing delicate facial modelling with expressive floral gesture.
Acrylic, ink, and metallic paint
Nocturne Bloom
A black, white, and gold figure composition where flowers, wings, and ornamental marks push portraiture toward myth.
Related works / 3 portraits
Red Ground / Moon Studies
Three portraits bring a warm ground into contact with cool facial tones and white linework. Red Moon Profile places a silver circle behind the head; the related portraits use earrings, clothing, and gestural marks as different points of emphasis.
Look across the groupBegin with the open red field in Red Moon Profile. Compare the tighter framing of Red Earring Study and the coral ground of Crown in Coral. The shared colour family makes differences in silhouette and surface easier to see.
Acrylic, graphite, and metallic paint
Red Moon Profile
A red-field profile built around a silver moon form, reflective facial modelling, and white patterning across the neck and shoulder.
Acrylic, graphite, ink, and metallic paint
Red Earring Study
A red-ground portrait balancing cool facial tones, gold earrings, and calligraphic white marks across the body.
Acrylic, ink, and mixed media
Crown in Coral
A portrait against a coral ground, with white ornamental linework and muted botanical marks moving through the figure.
Related works / 4 portraits
Text & Shelter Studies
Handwriting, compressed gestures, and repeated lines bring these works together. This grouping moves between the crowded surface of Shine Archive, the close figure in Shelter Study, and two portraits on paper.
Look across the groupLook between written language and drawn marks: text surrounds and crosses the figure in Shine Archive, white marks run across Shelter Study, and the paper portraits use either soft value or accumulated ink to hold a face.
Acrylic, ink, collage, and graphite
Shine Archive
A layered archive piece built from handwritten fragments, graphic symbols, grids, eyes, and a figure carrying text across the body.
Charcoal, graphite, and white paint
Shelter Study
A close, compressed figure study using darkness, stripes, and white scrawl to hold a private moment of tension.
Charcoal on paper
Hand to Crown
A resting portrait study where tonal mass and loose hairline marks hold the figure in a suspended gesture.
Ink on paper
For the Love of Ink
A portrait constructed from restless black line, letting density, repetition, and movement build the face.