I took time out today to go the exhibition of the 2013 BP Portrait Award winner Susanne du Toit at the Pasmore Gallery in Harrow School. Those who actually read what I post will know that I said her winning picture of Pieter was not my favourite from last year’s award. But now that I have…

Through another one of the wonders of the Internet, it was drawn to my attention that the 2012 BP Portrait Award winner Aleah Chapin is having a show in London at Flowers Cork Street Gallery. Having the ability to view Chapin’s work as the artist intended is very different from looking at her work in…

To promote the exhibition Rembrandt: The Late Works at the National Gallery, BBC2 broadcast the programme Rankin Shoots Rembrandt last Friday in which the photographer recreates the painter’s work. In the programme, Rankin describes the level of detail in Rembrandt’s work – detail which some artists would airbrush out to flatter the sitter. In fact, the…