Belinda Whiting

Girl In A Hood (Triptych)
giclee prints

For Belinda Whiting Harold Harvey’s Girl on a Cliff served as inspiration for this triptych. The model is Whiting’s daughter, Alice, who is a similar age to Cressida Wearne, Harvey’s model.

She developed a series of images of Alice in different landscape locations, in the garden, by the sea, on rocks, beside a river, in woodland, in rolling countryside. She was particularly interested in the relationship of the setting to the figure and in particular how different ‘backgrounds’ affected her foreground ‘presence’. For Girl on a Cliff, the model Cressida was painted in the artist’s garden and the background seascape was added later.

Whiting concentrated on one part of the project which had been shot near the river in Bodmin woods. She was interested in what happened to the figure in response to the landscape. Rather than ‘directing’ the scene she started to step back and pay more attention to what happened.