Really good to be back at the @TheRAFClub for a talk about my portrait of Her Late Majesty, The Queen, painted for the club in 2018.
Finally managed to see my two portraits of Nobel prize winners, Sir Fraser Stoddart & Richard Henderson at The Scottish National Portrait Gallery. @NatGalleriesSco
My daughter once asked me who the most famous person in the world was. I described some historical figures such as Elvis, Picasso, the late Queen, Mother Theresa, and the Dalai Lama. She thought about this and said to me: “hmmm the Dalai Lama….what about the Dolly Parton?”
So sad to think of the New Forest wildfire near Ringwood.
I made this watercolour sketch of a controlled fire near Picket Post, in March last year…
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I'm not an Anglican, and I'm not a member of the party for which Nick Timothy is an MP. But I do care very deeply about Suffolk's historic churches, I've been documenting them for nearly thirty years and I'm a vice-president of the Suffolk Historic Churches Trust.
The Church of England's plan to use its resources for 'reparations' of this kind seems at once ill-thought out and performative, without any basis in historical reality, a kind of gesture politics that will do few communities any good and will do some communities harm.
The churches that Mr Timothy mentions are national treasures. But more than this, the medieval parish churches of England are the greatest act of witness the Church of England has, a visible sign of its presence in every community, and if they are allowed to wither on the vine they will be symptoms of the Church of England's own withering away.
Sad to learn of the death of John Croft CBE at the age of 103. I painted this small study of him at the Reform Club in 2015.
A small portrait of Marcus Rashford (top left), making an appearance in my painting of John Sentamu currently on display @NPGLondon 1/
Both passionate advocates for ending food poverty, the footballer replaces a character in Giovanni Lanfranco’s The Miracle of the Loaves and Fishes @NGIreland 2/
A watercolour of @NobelPrize winning molecular biologist, Richard Henderson, working in his lab @The_MRC LMB in Cambridge. Made as a study for my portrait of him for @NatGalleriesSco
