The popularity of my "Artists with their Portraits" post every year - in relation to the Portrait Award Exhibition - is a great incentive to get as many pics as I can.
What my photographs help you to do - which
the online gallery
does NOT - is to see the size of the painting relative to the artist who
painted it.
Inevitably, I don't manage to capture every artist. Although I've got most....
(Mainly, I think, because very many of the artists had not yet realised that the badge they get give to wear which says "artist" on it has a PURPOSE! ie. it enables all the journalists to recognise all those who have painted a portrait in the exhibition - so you can ask for a photo!)
At least this Press Preview morning was limited to the artists and their sitters and the press. Which was a HUGE improvement on past years where all the "hangers on" came along as well and well and truly got in the way.
So here are all the portraits of Artists with their Portraits.
WARNING: This is
A MAMMOTH POST and not a quick read. You will need sustenance to get to the
end!
It provides:
- my photo of the artist with their painting
- LINKS for those who might wish to view/follow their work:
- website links are embedded in the artist's name - followed by their Instagram site
- followed by text in quotes that has been written by somebody from information supplied by the artists but the author has included a few conclusions of their own and certainly has not understood all the words they used! See if you can work out which one I mean. The answer will be on Facebook in a few days
- Summary of education and appearances in exhibitions etc.
- Self Portraits
- Portraits of Parents and Children
- Portraits of Women
- Portraits of Men
- Portraits of Groups
Self Portraits
Shinji Ihara (Japan)
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Light and Shadow (2025) By Shinji Ihara Oil on canvas (his self portrait appears in the shadow at the top - and....) |
- His paintings are always about stories and are rather like a puzzle and get more and more interesting as you study them. His colouration and tonal control are also amazing!
- Last year he produced an an immaculate painting in terms of both story and the quality of the painting - where the focal point was a white cat which had just died.