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Tessa Gwynne

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Thanks Jenny. She is an excellent artist and I have enjoyed her articles in The Artist magazine. Her work is very confident and thoughtful. I remember seeing her on PAOTY but don’t recall who she painted on that?
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Robert Jones, Napa

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She takes full advantage of the light effects on faces - lit from the side, or above, she imbues her subjects with life.  There was a fashion some years ago for very flat portraits - one is on show at the just re-opened National Portrait Gallery; Jonathan Jones, one of the Guardian's art correspondents, is full of praise for it, while managing - just to be contentious, I imagine - to describe Joshua Reynolds as a "carboard cut-out painter".   Well, it's a mug's game to criticize a painting when you can only see a photograph of it - it's a portrait of Anne Wintour, by Alex Katz.   Anyway, it seems to be very flat - contrasting lighting has not been used to any extent that I could see from the NPG photograph.  I shall not presume to criticize it, but I do like a portrait with texture, light and shade, and Sally Ward offers that. 

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Robert Jones, Napa

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https://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/portrait/mw195562/Anna-Wintour Anna Wintour, not Anne.  It's a copyrighted image, hence the link.

Jenny Harris

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Tessa, the two portraits she did to get to the final of PAOTY were firstly, Melanie Sykes, then Bernardine Evaristo.  In the final she painted Eddie Izzard.  All three a really good likeness.

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Tony Auffret

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Re: portrait of Anna Wintour, Robert.  Flat? it looks like out was painted by a ten year old.  Much prefer the Sally Ward portraits, especially her Eddie Izzard.

Christine Rogan

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I remember her on PAOTY and really like her portraits. Paul, hope your hand improves soon and not too painful. 

Tessa Gwynne

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Ah yes I remember the three above, all very good likenesses, especially when you consider the time restrictions and that the artists don’t know who they are going to get, so no chance of practice!

Denise Cat

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I really like to see green in the skin colours and I notice she picks this up in a lot of her portraits. I like the use of light also. Lovely portraits.
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Robert Jones, Napa

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Re: portrait of Anna Wintour, Robert.  Flat? it looks like out was painted by a ten year old.  Much prefer the Sally Ward portraits, especially her Eddie Izzard.
Tony Auffret on 21/06/2023 18:19:32 Well - I can't say it impressed me, from what I could see of it on the NPG website; it has little or no modelling and offers, so far as I could see, no insight at all into the character of the sitter (or the painter).  But this is what Jonathan Jones (absolutely no relation, and I'd disown him if he were) thinks of as good painting.  The Guardian's opinions so often diverge from mine that now and then I even think I might be wrong!  Imagine....  I can usually understand them: J Jones on the other hand .... he appears to have fits of passion for or against a given artist: I don't think that's what an art critic should do or be, but - what do I know? 
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Lewis Cooper

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Sally Ward...a very accomplished portraitist.  I like the way you can see where she's placed each brushstroke. Interesting asides on the 'flat' paintings of Alex Katz.  I often admire this style of art, and looked him up.   A little underwhelmed.  I've seen it done better...by artist/illustrator Patrick Nagel for example.  But we all like different things.  As for critics...open season.
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Next weeks Artists will be Masato Watanbe and Garry Devon . I attempt to open the thread on Monday morning if the system is working properly by then , unfortunately I can’t load and pictures . I will try again with the bonus thread. 
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Robert Jones, Napa

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Dixie - I haven't really thought this through, and there may be technical issues; but if you don't want to wait until Tuesday (and assuming the glitch will be an easy-fix anyway - it might actually take longer) if you were able to email your images and text to me, I might be able to do this for you.  That always assumes my desktop pc holds out, of course!  You never know with these things.  
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