These images are selected from a portfolio of grandmaster chess portraits that I have created over the past six years. Most of the grandmasters are friends and colleagues — as well as being an official artist on the chess circui

"Every time I paint a portrait I lose a friend," said John Singer Sargent. There were nearly 2,200 entries for this year's BP Portrait Award which equates to a lot of friendships broken. The annual exhibition at the Nati

Jenny Saville's fascination with human flesh started as an art student when she was awarded a scholarship to attend Cincinnati University. Once there she became an habitué of the shopping malls of Ohio because that was "wher

I spent all of last year drawing London-looking, exploring, finding new bits and revisiting, considering, reassessing and re-evaluating familiar places I thought I knew well. Wandering and drawing made me notice and think afresh