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Artists and Illustrators Magazine – February 2007

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This is double page article featuring a description of my recent portrait of Lord Chief Justice Woolf for the Inner Temple. I talk about the composition, the pose, discuss certain areas of the painting like the head, hands, fireplace, John Bratby painting on the wall etc… It feels a little like I’ve taken over the A&I Magazine recently, but I’ll be taking a rest from it for a whie I think, though there will be more…watch this space.

January 28th, 2007

Artists and Illustrators Magazine – January 2007

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This is a 4 page article detailing my approach to painting a portrait and it features a sequence, or step by step commentary about how I build up a painting. The portrait in the example is a colour profile of Kitty Godley which I painted in February 2006 and deliberately recorded in stages because I know from experience how interested people are in seeing the mechanism of a painting. It shows the progression stage by stage from beginning to end. I only wish that I could show these images bigger but for copyright reasons I can’t.

January 28th, 2007

BP MAGAZINE – “PORTRAIT OF PERFECTION”

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This is an article in the very glossy in -house magazine published by BP, which I think is a quarterly and this came out just before Christmas 2006.

It’s an article about 6 of the artists that have won the BP Portrait Award since BP began sponsoring the event in 1990. There are interviews with Victoria Russell, Stuart Pearson Wright, Ishbel Myerscough, Justin Mortimer, Catherine Goodman, my good friend Peter Edwards and myself.

January 28th, 2007

AMERICAN ART COLLECTOR MAGAZINE-December 2006

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This is a 4 page article written about my recent show in Santa Fe, New Mexico. It was primarily a B/W  based show featuring paintings and drawings and the article came out. The article is partly written by Francisco Arechiga and partly my answers to a series of questions from the journalist on the magazine.

January 28th, 2007

Check out the latest edition of Artists and Illustrators magazine (October 2006 number 241).

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There is an article on me in my studio and a dissection of two of my paintings.

September 5th, 2006

The Guardian – “Persistence pays off for Tift as he wins portrait award” 14/6/06

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June 29th, 2006

What The Independent said ( Tuesday 9th May 2006)

Independant article may 2006

May 22nd, 2006

What The Guardian said (Tuesday 9th May 2006)

This is what the Guardian said about the selection

The Guardian review

May 22nd, 2006

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