The Artist’s Statement
I am expecting to get to the age of Caravaggio’s St Jerome and still be trying to work out how to put into words what I’m trying to express in paint. Like Edward Hopper, I think the ‘statement’ is hanging right there on the wall and having spent countless hours trying...
Frans Hals
In 1989 I visited the Frans Hals exhibition at the Royal Academy in London. It was a life changing moment for me when I stood in front of Hals' inexpressibly tender portrait of Isabella Coymans offering her husband, Stephanus, a rose which he is on the point of...
We, The People
Portrait painting is an interestingly democratic business. The status or the self-image of the person you are painting is of far less importance than what you discover of them through observation. Of course, you have to treat people with respect and try to understand...
