No visits to the Mall Galleries this year either! This is the gallery I think I miss the most. This year's Royal Society of Portrait Painters exhibition is on and we've all got the email alert. Great paintings, online only. It really does pay to take some time to have a look through them.
Darren Butcher's painting shown below could be called caricature rather than portrait. Does it matter though? Very well painted anyway and there's an Expressions Two as well. In fact, there are a lot of new artists in the show this year, as well as the usual ones I remember and love.
Below: Expressions One, Darren Butcher, Oil, 63x63cm
The portrait below is by Alex Tzavaras. He runs a good YouTube channel called SIMPLIFY Drawing & Painting where he teaches painting technique and does some artist interviews.
Below: Peter Wearing a Plaid Shirt, Alex Tzavaras, Charcoal, 90x70cm
It woud be great if the various painting societys and groups could work out a way to take their exhibitions north of the border each year as well somehow.