Frances Bell | BBC NEWS

Image: Frances Bell, ‘Portrait of a Conversation/ Lockdown’   New Light Art: Prize shows depth of Northern talent, winner says Full article on BBC NEWS website The winner of a prestigious arts prize showcasing work from around the north of England has said it shows the “great depth” of the region’s talent. Frances Bell, 40,…

RP Commission Service I Luxurious Magazine

Image: Alastair Adams, ‘Peter & Helen Wellby’   Inside The Royal Society of Portrait Painters’ Commission Service Full article on Luxurious Magazine website   Embark on an extraordinary and intrinsically personal Fine Art journey vis the Royal Society of Portrait Painters’ Portrait Commission Service, which provides exclusive access to the UK’s finest portrait painters.  King…

PAUL BRASON I THE NATIONAL NEWS

Image: Paul Brason, ‘Noor Inayat Khan’   Queen Camilla unveils portrait of ‘spy princess’ Noor Inayat Khan Full article on The National News website   British agent served in resistance in Nazi-occupied France and was killed at Dachau concentration camp. Queen Camilla unveiled a portrait of Second World War resistance agent Noor Inayat Khan at…

SAIED DAI I THE GUARDIAN

Image: Saied Dai, ‘Theresa May’   Saied Dai on his Theresa May portrait: ‘Thank God I didn’t have to paint Boris!’ Full article on The Guardian website   The garlanded artist reveals the ‘intimate and intense’ process of looking for the person behind the politician to make his surprisingly humanising painting of the former PM…

THE LATE John Walton RP

Image: John Walton RP, ‘Self portrait’   John Walton RIP 1925 – 2023 In 1976 John Walton was elected a member of the Royal Society of Portrait Painters, a Member Society of the Federation of British Artists (FBA), an arts educational charity which administers the Mall Galleries. During the eighties the FBA experienced difficulties and in…

Saied Dai I UK Parliament

Image: Saied Dai, ‘Theresa May’   Committee unveils portrait of former Prime Minister Theresa May Full article on UK Parliament website   A portrait of former Prime Minister and Home Secretary – The Rt Hon Theresa May MP –  has been unveiled in Parliament, following a commission from the Speaker’s Advisory Committee on Works of…