After having met the family for one sitting, seen where the portrait would hang and discussed the pose and what they'd wear, work began to note their skin tones, personalities, gesture. After taking and agreeing on photos to be used, I return to my home studio, where the work to created the portrait in earnest begins...
My portrait of NHS paramedic Helen Chiverton as part of the #portraitsfornhsheroes instagram initiative where artists donate a free oil portrait to a nominated frontline worker, created in lockdown.
Ben and Sacha with their abstract expressionist father Frank Bowling's 'Cover Girl' for the Lots Road Group exhibition ‘Connected: the changing face of Britain’.
A drawn portrait commission of a musician performing at his birthday party, to mark his retirement from journalism, and the start of the next part of his life.
