After Liliane Lijn had completed the Woman of War and exhibited it with Lady of the Wild Things at the Venice Biennale, she began a series of oil pastel drawings called Inner Portraits. Lijn thought of these drawings as visualisations of her Self.
These drawings are midway between archetypal female images and a movement towards work in which Lijn looked directly at herself.
Photography by Plastiques.
Dark Energy
1989
103.5 x 70.5 cm
Oil pastel and watercolour on Whatman paper.
Fireworks Portrait
1987
103.5 x 70.5 cm
Acrylic and oil pastel on Whatman paper.
Inner Bird Portrait
1987
103.5 x 70.5 cm
Oil pastel on Whatman paper
Her Waterself
1987
104 x 90.5 cm
Watercolour, oil pastel on Whatman paper
Nightwind
1987 – 89
104 x 70.5 cm
Acrylic and oil pastel on Whatman paper
Water Medusa
1985
Ink and oil pastels on Whatman paper
Water Juggernaut
1985
104 x 70.5
Watercolour, oil pastel on paper
