Cluck Art presents Hen Party, a series of striking minimalist portraits by Norfolk-based artist Deborah Howard. The exhibition brings together a collection of bold, design-led works that explore the power of reduction in portraiture. Working primarily in colour pencil and acrylic gouache, Howard constructs faces using carefully balanced shapes, crisp lines and confident colour. Each portrait is built from a limited visual vocabulary - curves, blocks of colour and refined contours, yet the results feel expressive and full of personality. The works reduce the human face to its essential elements, allowing small details to carry emotional weight. The Hen Party series draws inspiration from the graphic clarity of pop art and contemporary illustration. Influences such as Andy Warhol and Takashi Murakami can be seen in Howard’s embrace of strong colour, bold contrast and playful visual rhythm. At the same time, the work remains grounded in the intimacy of hand-drawn mark-making. Although minimalist in structure, the portraits invite viewers to project character and narrative onto the faces they see. “My work is about finding personality through simplicity. I’m fascinated by how much expression can exist in just a few lines and shapes. I work mainly in colour pencil and acrylic gouache, building portraits slowly and carefully. I enjoy the process of simplifying a face down to its essential elements, deciding what to include, what to remove, and how colour and shape can carry the character of the person. Pop art has always been a big influence on me. I love the bold colours, confidence and sense of fun in artists like Andy Warhol and Takashi Murakami, and that spirit feeds into what I create. The Hen Party portraits explore different moods and personalities; each distilled into a simple visual language."