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
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
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
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
November 20th, 2006
My portrait of Lord Chief Justice Woolf was unveiled at a dinner at the Honourable Society of the Inner Temple in London on 15th November 2006. The Inner Temple is like walking back in time to the 15th century. The dinner was held in a grand hall straight out of Harry Potter with wooden walls and shields on the wall and everybody that I spoke to had perfect elecution, manners and etiquette. Anne and myself felt a bit like fish out of water at the start but everyone was so nice to us we just had a great time. The portrait seemed to go down well. The brief was to be more informal and relaxed than most of the other portraits in the temple which is why it was set at Lord Woolfs home rather than in robes in the Temple. It took me about 5 months to paint and is the result of 5 sittings . It is painted in acrylis and will soon be framed. Look out for an article on the portrait in the December edition of Artists and Illustrators magazine.(see the above image for a close up)
November 20th, 2006
The BP Portrait Award has now finished in London at the National Portrait Gallery and it travels to Aberdeen Art Gallery. This show opens on Friday 25th November and continues through to the 3rd February 2007. It then moves on to The Royal West of England Academy, Bristol from 31st March where it closes on 20th May 2007.
November 5th, 2006
The Andreeva Gallery in Santa Fe are staging an exhibition of my recent portraits and a few American landscapes. The Exhibition opens on Friday 1st December and goes on until 16th December 2006. The Magazine “American Art Collector” are also doing a large article in their December edition to coincide with the exhibition.
For more information about the exhibition please contact- [email protected]
November 5th, 2006
I am currently working on new work for a solo show at The New Art Gallery, Walsall which will focus on Kitty Godley, (The lady featured in the triptych which won this years BP Portrait Award at the NPG). I am doing a series of drawings, paintings and etchings based upon Kitty and little interior studies within her house together with a portrait of her which directly mirrors her portrait by Lucian Freud which is in the galleries collection and will be displayed within my show. For those of you who didn’t make it to London to see the BP Portrait Awards my triptych will also be on display as part of the exhibition. It opens on Friday 25th May 2007 and if anybody would like tickets to the opening please leave a message on my site.
November 5th, 2006
National Portrait Gallery Publications have released 2 books this year (2006) featuring my work. The first is called “The Portrait Now” by Nairne/Howgate and is a survey of contemporary portraiture featuring painting, photography, sculpture and film. IBSM 10:1 85514 358 5
The second is the catalogue which illustrates this years BP Portrait Award – BP Portrait Award 2006 (essay by Margaret Forster) NPG Publications – IBSN 1-85514-373-9
November 5th, 2006
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