Tag: BP portrait award

Sara Shamma – interview: ‘When I paint, I am in a state like meditation’

Shamma’s latest exhibition of new paintings responds to works by greats from Rembrandt to Rubens. Here, she talks about her intuitive practice, the importance of music to her work, the impact of war in her native Syria, and women and…
Clae Eastgate – interview: ‘I want my portraiture to be that bridge, that in-between being, between a genre painting and a traditional portrait of someone’s face’

The artist talks about her project Painting the Poets, comprising a growing collection of portraits of female poets, which she hopes to exhibit to provide a platform for, and raise awareness of, the importance of women’s voices
Aleah Chapin: interview

American artist Aleah Chapin has had huge success early in her career. On graduating from the New York Academy of Art she was made a postgraduate fellow and went on to become one of the youngest artists to win the…