It’s that time of year again, the art portraiture silly season! The Royal Society of Portrait Painters exhibition coming to the Mall Galleries, The BP National Portrait Awards judged ready for the annual show at the National Portrait Gallery, The Sky Arts “Portrait Artist of the Year”, another TV series Continue Reading
The National Gallery
December Blog – Goya and his portraits
I had always thought my knowledge of Goya was fairly substantial as, not only had I seen many of his works in the Prado, Madrid, but I had also studied the “Disasters of War” series of his etchings at the British Museum, sketched a few of his works and read Continue Reading
May 2015 Blog
I’m unable to paint at the moment due to house redecoration duties which must take priority! I have had a little time, however, to look back over some old work and the period when I tried some life drawing and painting. For me this subject has always been a challenging Continue Reading