Portrait Shortlisted for the National Open Art Competition

I am delighted to announce that my portrait "Not a Penny More" has been shortlisted for the first round of the National Open Art Competition 2017! The portrait features a football supporting friend and was painted entirely from life via the sight-size method over the course of a number of sittings in my studio. [...]

August 14th, 2017|News|

Sight-size Portraiture at LARA

To help broaden my portfolio I’ve recently been studying the principles of sight-size portraiture and alla prima painting, culminating in a portrait masterclass at LARA (The London Atelier of Representational Art) earlier this month. In summary, sight-size portraiture is a method of painting whereby the artist makes most observations of the sitter from a distance, [...]

September 29th, 2016|In the Studio|