You have a few days left over the festive season to view the Sky Arts Portrait Artist of the Decade drawings and paintings at the National Portrait Gallery. Portraits of Dame Judi Dench by Christobel Blackburn, Gareth Stevenson, Samira Addo and...
You have a few days left over the festive season to view the Sky Arts Portrait Artist of the Decade drawings and paintings at the National Portrait Gallery.
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| Portraits of Dame Judi Dench by Christobel Blackburn, Gareth Stevenson, Samira Addo and Christian Hook |
They're currently on view in what's called the "Spotlight Space" at the very bottom of the publicly accessible floors of the National Portrait Gallery.
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| Portraits of Dame Judi Dench by Curtis Holder, Morag Caistor and Gareth Reid |
I visited back in November. It took me about half an hour to locate where they were!!
The directions within the Gallery are extremely opaque. Essentially they're down in the basement on Level -03. In order to locate the "Spotlight Space", you can DOWNLOADthe full Gallery map of the National Portrait Gallery the NPG's large print map
BELOW you can see the images of the various portraits of Dame Judi Dench on Level -03 (the minus is VERY important - as I learned on my trek around the Gallery!
You can also read my Review: Portrait Artist of the Decade
The first episode of Portrait Artist of the Year this year was devoted to the competition to find the Portrait Artist of the Decade - from the winners of the previous series.The sitter for this momentous occasion was Dame Judi Dench - who promised to nod off in the afternoon but stayed bright and alert all day by the look of the programme.
Plus see my photographs in the album on my Facebook Page - see Portrait Artist of the Decade
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| Portrait Artist of the Decade The Set-Up for the sitting with Dame Judi Dench |
Dame Judi Dench by....
Below you can see views of the paintings hung on the wall at the National Gallery - with a one line comment from me. They are ordered by time and the series won by the artist.READ MORE......>>