Oh how the mighty have been tumbled by Michael Mcmanus

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Wow Mick, it looks as though we are a talented lot here on POL, winning all these prestigious prizes, You would definitely come tops for imagination. Another visibly tortured soul having trouble handling disappointment....lol

Posted by Fiona Phipps on Wed 31 Aug 11:49:47

Sure it wasn't Paul Whitehouse Munch?

Posted by Linda Wilson on Wed 31 Aug 12:19:43

Thanks Fiona and Linda.

Posted by Michael Mcmanus on Wed 31 Aug 12:23:12

I think you are in for a prize Michael

Posted by Dennis Rounding on Wed 31 Aug 13:31:44

Thanks Dennis.

Posted by Michael Mcmanus on Wed 31 Aug 13:43:17

Great painting and thank your for my prize!?! I felt compelled to respond ..

Posted by Gudrun Ståhl Sharpley on Wed 31 Aug 16:13:35

Ha,ha, nice one Michael.

Posted by Margaret Beynon on Wed 31 Aug 16:26:57

Thanks Gudrun and Margaret. Well won Gudrun. Talent will out in the end.

Posted by Michael Mcmanus on Wed 31 Aug 18:44:20

..and Gudrun apparently felt faint when she heard!!

Posted by Louise Naimian on Fri 02 Sep 07:44:00

She shouldn't have been surprised Louise.

Posted by Michael Mcmanus on Fri 02 Sep 08:15:39

Hang on Studio Wall

31/08/2016

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Pastel. The internationally famed German portrait painter, Paul Whitehousen, is visibly shocked as David Hockney announces that the winner of the 2016 Portrait Painter Of The Year Award is Gudrun Ståhl Sharpley.

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Michael Mcmanus

I was born in 1946. In the 1960s and part of the 70s I was an airman in the Royal Navy, Fleet Air Arm. I joined Durham Constabulary in 1971. In 1999 I retired from policing and began teaching sociology and criminology at Durham University with emphasis on policing and researching crime. I am drawn…

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