Tyson Mason
Between Skin and Bone

“Great lighting adds an extra layer to the piece to isolate the moment.”

Tyson Mason creates intimate graphite drawings of ordinary human experiences: affection, heartbreak, quietness, vulnerability and the small gestures that reveal something about the people around us.

Working from photographs and old films, Mason reconstructs fleeting moments with a mechanical pencil. Light is central to the process, isolating a gesture or expression and giving it unexpected emotional weight.

His influences include Norman Rockwell and Anna Weyant, and his drawings often reward close looking with small hidden details.