How it all began…

This AMAZING portrait, ‘Profile’, is a little slow in being uploaded. It’s a painting by the wonderful painter Robbie Wraith. I’m very proud to have been the subject of his work for as long as I was, and hope to return to his studio some time in the future.

Longlisted for the Threadneedle Prize 2009, we were sadly robbed by judges who failed to see the genius… The Times obviously did though, as it was the one image they chose to print alongside an article about the prize!

Anyway, look closely – the man is very talented. 🙂

Another one, actually:

In a Daydream

I’ve just received two images (well, two different versions of the same image) from a budding new photographer based in Oxford. I really love the romantic, classical, daydream feel to them. The image was originally shot in quite poor, natural light (it was very overcast that day), but the re-working and overlaying of the writing shows what a bit of creativity can do. I think I prefer the warmer one. What do you think?