In the Spring of 2020, weeks before lockdown, I met up with my secondary school art teacher, himself an artist, for the first time in nearly 35 years. Talk quickly turned to his paintings, and it reaffirmed how inspiring I found the privilege of encounters with artists and talking to them about their art. After this teacher my first encounter was a long chat with my grandmother's friend's husband, 'Mac' who won medals from the Paris Salon in the first half of the 20th Century. The latest encounter, during lockdown, has included being in contact with the Surrealist Desmond Morris and the portrait painter Peter Edwards. This Curation includes most of those between those dates, and is currently under development.
Head of JYM III 1980
Frank Helmuth Auerbach (b.1931)
Oil on board
H 71.1 x W 61 cm
British Council Collection
Passing Over 1982–1986
Wilhelmina Barns-Graham (1912–2004)
Oil on canvas
H 91.5 x W 122 cm
Government Art Collection
Glenda Jackson (1936–2023) 1993
Glenys Barton (b.1944)
Ceramic
H 40 cm
National Portrait Gallery, London
Street Corner Study: London Series 1967–1969
Boyle Family (active since mid-20th C)
Synthetic resin on wooden frame
H 181.3 x W 180.4 x D 10 cm
National Museums NI
John Randall Bratby; Josephine ('Joey') Pleasence, née Crombie 1967
John Randall Bratby (1928–1992)
Oil on canvas
H 167.6 x W 91.4 cm
National Portrait Gallery, London
Daley Thompson 1986
David Buckland (b.1949)
Cibachrome print
H 100.3 x W 76.2 cm
National Portrait Gallery, London
Auberge belles choses, St Cirq-Lapopie 1985
Bernard Dunstan (1920–2017)
Oil on board
H 31 x W 26 cm
Maidstone Museum & Bentlif Art Gallery
The Photographer mid-20th C
Betty Miller (1926–2023)
Bronze
H 12.7 x W 10.2 x D 3 cm
National Coal Mining Museum for England
Elizabeth Bowen 1969
André Durand (b.1942)
Oil on canvas
H 101.6 x W 91.4 cm
National Portrait Gallery, London
Seamus Heaney 1987–1988
Peter Douglas Edwards (b.1955)
Oil on canvas
H 198.1 x W 137.2 cm
National Portrait Gallery, London
David Bowie 1994
Stephen Finer (b.1949)
Oil on canvas
H 56.2 x W 45.4 cm
National Portrait Gallery, London
Maggie Aderin-Pocock (b.1968) 2016
Simon Frederick (b.1965)
Archival inkjet print
H 38 x W 26 cm
National Portrait Gallery, London