Although not from a sitting, as this work is 1985, there is however wonderful photographic reference. There is a shot of him in this pose but with a very contorted expression due to the high note. It is important to have more than one photograph to do such an extreme expression successfully, but it also gave me the opportunity to express other aspects.

I found a model for the figure in a sports shop. He was so pleased to be posing for Jimi he couldn't stop smiling throughout the sitting. I had to mask off his face in my photographs, as it was giving me the wrong mood for the portrait.