Portrait Portfolio

 The story of a family portrait in oils from conception to unveiling

Adam Boulton, ex Political Editor now Editor-at-large Sky News.

Oil on canvas

The hod carrier and Maasai woman portraits in oil to be exhibited at this year's Milan Expo.  Find out their fascinating stories.  Both artworks have now sold.

 

"Being scrutinised by an artist's eye is a world away from sitting in front of a news camera – a far more personal and exposed experience – but the fact I know how gentle and endearing Stella is made it an altogether easier time than I’d imagined." - Julie Etchingham, journalist and presenter ITV News.

Geraldine Sharpe-Newton SOLD
Chair International Women’s Forum UK 1997-1999
Oil on canvas

The story of my painting of ‘Mum and me’ for the first Lots Road Group of portrait painters exhibition 'Motherhood'.
Oil on canvas.

My oil portrait on canvas of Kate Adie will be on show at the Royal Society of Portrait Painters Annual Exhibition 2015. 

Three separate portraits in oils made at three separate times to celebrate three of the most important people in my life, son John-Paul and daughter Jasmine and niece Holly.

 A portrait - drawn or, like this one in oils, is you - filtered through the eyes of an artist.

 Saharan Tuareg portrait in oils painted at Egypt's first art biennale 2013, where I won the Judges' Prize.

Portrait in oils of Lynne, my sister Lorna and Godfather's son Simon.  Childhood remembrances that evoked shared memories in the viewer...

Autobiographical portraits have a universal feel that stretches across the years to remind us of our own pasts.