Fearne Cotton's Artistry - Portrait Artist of the Year - S06 EP5 - Art Documentary

foreign [Music] Arts Center to  find out what makes a good portrait but consider things like mood likeness composition  but of course we all know the most important thing is how long did it take welcome back  it's portrait artist of the year 2020. nine artists arriving in Battersea today six are  professional Graham dodridge Piper Sue Nick fear Susie Wright Timothy gaytonby and Keith Robinson  I've been doing some time frame practice really to take away a few of the uncertainties involved  but I

'm not sure how much that has worked they're joined by three amateur artists are you excited  I'm excited yes I'm losing weight by the second John Bennett Iman sidoni Samuels and Rebecca  underdown I've done song practice my husband has sat for me although he's quite critical I don't  think any of them have been good enough for him our nine artists are here  to show what they can create in just four hours I'm still working  as you can see but not frantic they will make their mark it'll be all  r

ight in the end if it's not all right we haven't reached the end and impress our three  Discerning judges we showed a bit longer really but of course everyone does I've heard that  before there's a sensational prize at stake a ten thousand pound commission to paint music  legend Nile Rogers for the Royal Albert Hall so which of our artists have the skill oh I  think I need to just step up the pace a bit to make it through to the semi-final we'll be  finished I'm not going to do a lot because at

this stage I could obliterate work that I'm pleased  with please don't obliterate the work at least [Music] while our artists make themselves at  home the judges take a closer look at the self-portraits that secured them their  place here today well judges here we are again the war starting with a very small portrait  small but very powerful and I think that's got a lot to do with the expression of the  artist which is one of total concentration absolutely he's really caught something  quite ten

se I think it's really effective this is a mystery Who's the artist well we can  rule out the dogs and the child the portrait is by the woman yeah I think the child's expression  is so authentic isn't it I think that's a classic sort of toddler I don't want to be here and I  think she's really caught that sense of movement I mean it's just got some fantastic Poise  it's quite Regal the position of the head the way that the chin is tilted I think her hair  is fantastic yeah and the way but she's

done that flow to them it's almost as if she slid something  across the canvas you get a real sense of light shining on a very sort of fresh surface and  it comes from the way she's put the paint on now this is extraordinary it's got a very street  art feel to it I think it's interesting they've done it in this two halves and you've got  the ghosted version here and I like the way who almost disappears sort of operating down into  those boots how strange is this I'm trying to work out what the n

arrative is obviously the artist is  speaking to us through his puppet look you know so peculiar why is he Barefoot you know what sort of  story is he going to conjure up today you wonder it's lovely it's scruffy and it's honest it  almost looks ecclesiastical that there's this kind of light coming in and he suddenly appears  the apotheosis I think that is a very modern looking Saint perhaps you can always taste the  colors with this one you almost pop the necklace as a sweetie into your mouth I

particularly love  the loose paints and how Vivid and quick it feels it's a very well constructed head it's  an honest bit of observation but makes it sing I'm really those colors that he's  introduced the blues and the greens and they said play against the pinks and the Browns  of the skin so we've got a mixture of sizes mixture of techniques and then quite a lot of  puzzling narratives to be explained we'll see foreign with paints prepared and brushes  in place there's just one more thing our

artists need for today's challenge they're  sitters artists as the original people's poet your sitter today is something of  a legend he's a Lyricist a rock star a social commentator and now even an honorary  doctor please welcome John Cooper Clark playing a major role in the 70s punk  movement John Cooper Clark's career as a performance poet spans five decades  and his work still inspires the likes of the Arctic Monkeys and plan B today how you  doing all right do I call you John doctor [Laugh

ter] had a portrait painted  before millions of times yeah do you have any idea of what you're after  today uh uh something in the way of heavy air brushing right we can do that for you you can  make him eternally youthful of course we can yes artists your sitter is a presenter who has  lit up our screens and entertained us on air she is also I understand a fantastic artist  herself please welcome Fern cotton [Music] well known for presenting top of the pops Red  Nose Day and as a panelist on Ce

lebrity juice Fern cotton was the first regular female presenter  of radio one's chart show now we've heard about your being an artist kind of an artist are you  well I actually like to do portraits myself so you've done self-portraits yeah you have done  a lot of self-portraits quite true to life I think yeah painting is a great passion of mine so  what about your behavior do you think your fidget I haven't sat down for this long without a child  screaming at me or without a laptop in my hands

for years so I don't quite know what's going to  happen good luck artists as well as appearing in hit TV dramas Peak practice Sherlock and the  Windsors your sitter today has also appeared in a host of award-winning film and theater Productions  please welcome the wonderful Hayden Gwen after rising to fame and drop the dead donkey on TV  Hayden's successful stage career has included the award-winning Billy Elliot the Musical and  on film in the magical live remake of Beauty and the Beast yes ple

ase I imagine you have what  dozens of portraits of yourself around your house as uh Camilla uh for the Windsors there's a  giant Pub sign I see uh and I have actually got that and I don't know what to do  with it open a pub the Hayden Quinn it works it sounds like yeah perfect is  there anything you guys are looking for from Hayden is it possible to put a shoulder  in my direction yeah yeah that kind of thing just go off or not to scoff no I don't  think it's yours okay great I got a scarf mayb

e look a bit over there  well how do you feel over here um the sitting still part is uh that's what  I do best oh is it oh good sitting down and staring in a space is 80 percent of my job  [Music] artists I know you're all eager to get going you have four hours to create your  portraits your time starts now [Music] foreign [Music] whilst most of our artists go straight onto  canvas thank you one begins by exploring her ideas on paper I understand some quick sketches  to try and get the rubbish o

nes out of the way help me figure out also where the light is and  sort of where her faces and then I can get it onto the canvas so it looks better I just need  to get it on people first it's like my sister amateur artist Rebecca underdown lives in  gloucestershire with her husband and two young children her self-portrait took around  eight hours to create in both acrylic paints and pens which he uses to add extra color and  detail your self-portraits your dogs on a wall the family are all sitti

ng there you thought this  would make the ideal self-portrait I just accepted so a bit like when they do the posters  for the big Hollywood Blockbusters they take pictures of them individually and put  them all together Rebecca's Adventures yeah exactly and so your bright colors will  they stay that bright I might make them brighter I can see tubes of all sorts of  exciting stuff over here yeah we've got some pens to be drawn it as well okay yeah  scribble it out if it doesn't look good [Music]

most artists are working in oils but one prefers a  medium more often found in the stationary cupboard than a portrait artist studio Susie you seem to  be sort of feeling your way with a bit pencil and then you nail it down and I thought it was  some exotic sort of artistic actually it's Biro yeah so it's sort of basic material to produce  something extraordinary yeah and I have to use like different ones because some of them are like  very flowing and others are a better pigment and it was such

a soft beginning with the pencils but  you're going really heavy in now with the with the ink yeah and that's the way you like it I like it  like that because she's not quite dreamy before and now I can I can see the hard side of her 24  year old Susie Wright is a professional artist who splits her time painting and working part-time  in an art shop in Oxford a lover of bright color she was Keen to include her trademark turban in  her self-portrait which took six hours to create in your self-po

rtrait you were very exotically  dressed ferns rather more sort of sedately she has got a sparkly top one had great shoes which  unfortunately are not featuring where are you going to find the clout so it will be colorful  I don't know how I love phone cotton I think she's fantastic so it's really exciting yeah and  I love her nose as well yeah so she's got a very good news a very good sitter so I'm really  intrigued to see how it goes on yeah foreign [Music] to have you've got him there in the

chair you've  got the head you've got the glasses do you usually work this quickly John's got such a powerful look  so it's already kind of there in the mind isn't it it must be fun to be the coolest person in  the building he certainly is his pose you know the chin and the and the way you're capturing  that and it's tremendously idiosyncratic yeah you're giving you the perfect sitter no pressure  professional artist Timothy Gayton be trained in experimental film at Queen Mary University  and tr

aditional portraiture in Florence he likes combining the energy of street art  with a more representational style as in his self-portrait diptych I'm spying another canvas  here and I know your submission was addicted is it too much to ask for that we might have two  we're definitely going to go for the brave man I like it you just get that sense of movement when  you look at one and then you look at another it's got more of a narrative will you be doing  a shadow it could be yeah it's nice to h

ave one slightly more blurred out than the other so  you've got that passing of time [Music] foreign company he used about 16 000 different colors  already he's as many as possible accentuate what's there a little bit so how informed  by what's in front of you is your choice of colors or do you tend to go to the same group of  colors every time there are certain colors that if you know they're there although you can't  see them you know they're there although you can't see them there are hints t

o them from  this distance it's difficult to see them but so you're painting colors that aren't there but  are there yeah they are they are there somewhere but you just can't see them right I mean I'm  with you I think I think Nick fear spent 15 years working for the environment agency in  leicestershire before becoming a professional artist he painted his self-portrait from  a photo using a variety of flat brushes are you finding Fern she's very good yeah very  still almost too pretty too prett

y too pretty I've got those sort of gnarled kind  of you want something more yeah yeah that's not that's  pretty nulled foreign [Music] most artists have established the composition and start to consider the more detailed features  of the face control Maps but I might just budge that a bit I'll gloss over it until the end  to put it in last for the background [Music] I don't want it to look too rigid  I always wanted to kind of look like it's flowing across the painting the  characters coming th

rough a fog almost oh with the Biro because you can't get rid of them so literally those lines are part of  the picture so you've just got to work with it starts neat and then you get  into it and then it does get a bit messy [Music] looking for replacing the semi-final are artists  are hard at work painting John Cooper Clark Hayden Gwynn and fern cotton who've been holding their  pose for one hour whether confronted with natural beauty or a face that's partly obscured it's  the artist's job to

capture the essence of their subject what I think is incredible is there's  a lot of stuff around John his glasses his hair and his great outfit and it's very difficult to  get to capture him but somehow you've done that this pose reminds me a bit of the Velasquez Pope  and he is a bit of a punk Pope the bits of his face that you can see I'm just trying to put  those in without laboring it and so I hope I will catch something of his presence because he  does have a presence professional artist G

raham dudridge works as a commercial photographer by day  squeezing in time to paint in his garage at home fascinated by storytelling his self-portrait  was inspired by an early 20th century Indian cigarette packet which said passing show  I love this hand and you captured it with very few marks how does one proceed now do you  become more precise and make it more finished I'm going to add the jewelry with a crisper touch  so that will be the detail oh okay I don't want to influence the way you

paint but I I think that's  rather marvelous burning up to you thank you foreign [Music] should say something in visual terms without  you having to say it out loud putting the background in because that controls the color of  the skin if you've got someone with very red skin you don't want a green or a bluish background too  much because it'll make the skin look even redder Liverpool born John Bennett is an  amateur artist who's enjoying his retirement years traveling and taking  short courses

in portraiture he wanted to be inventive with the angle of his head in  his submission which took 20 hours to paint you've got this lovely Earthly color tones because  you've drawn from the set but you tend to work in relatively realistic palette anyway it tends to be  limited to five colors but I'll spice it up a bit for the occasion six or seven today but still the  lovely drawing underneath so do you feel confident with the lightness it comes and goes it Ebbs and  flows it's a journey of some

thing coming from the sitter to the artist Across The Ether so you're  getting the waves I'm trying to get away it's been a good sitter she's a wonderful sitter and I'm  trying to get the waves okay good foreign [Music] by instinct to taking a more measured approach  each artist has their own individual Style I like the way you've cropped her head I  like to have the face quite big so I can like do the motion with my paper I see I use that  brushes right so it's always an across motion got all t

hree paint brushes in my hand I know I'm  anxious for you as you keep switching them it gets a bit messy but and you're wearing some  very nice clothes today it's one of my main challenges for today not to get any pain on myself  because my mom would be like I can't get it out so seventeen-year-old Iman sidoni Samuels  lives at home with her mum and dad in London her self-portrait was painted from a photo  she took of herself by a window as she liked the patterns the light created where would  y

ou normally be on a Tuesday morning if you weren't here french lesson a level double French  isn't it it's really surreal okay you can't like Get over like I'm actually here good luck  I can't wait to see what you do thank you very good french it's a very good french thank you foreign behind each of our sitters is a backdrop  inspired by different aspects of a famous artist and their work what's today's theme today we've  taken the greatest artists Vincent van Gogh if you think about the early y

ears we had those dark  brooding paintings and then in the middle years you know we've discovered post-impressionism  and all that wonderful color started coming in texture and then finally in the south of France  you have this fantastic proversal blue skies and the intense yellow that you'd have seen saying  the sunflowers fields or the cornfields and what about the city Cloud I think it's a bit like  a praying mantis it's almost as if he's about to sort of pounce on something he's one of the 

most original sitters we've had I'm kind of in a self-induced trance I've got a fixed point in  the middle distance once you've got it and you take your eye off that fixed position that's  kind of the kiss of death that it's all over [Music] so behind Fern tell me more it is from  Vincent's Parisian years where he was starting to build up his own style of brush marks and they're  quite gestural and it's a close-up of a self-pity and it's of his beard it's interesting you  mentioned beards becaus

e obviously a big talking point in this series is going to be your beard  um is it a big talking point it is in my house well you know it was uh is it an homage to  anyone in particular well yes to Vincent I was I was grasping for yes absolutely yes  yes he's not in any way a midlife crisis I feel like I'm almost invisible these  guys are painting and there's all these wonderful Spectators eagerly watching and I sort of feel like I'm voyeuristically just  watching everything but I'm not here So

within all these earthy tones we've got Hayden  sitting in a very bright shirt I think she's got a lovely long limbs two of the artists have just  gone straight for the head and one's capturing her in the chair I think I'll be quite drawn to seeing  an artist who understands how to get that poise people sometimes say I think it's because I'm  tall and quite slim that I'm elegant but that's not how I see myself I see myself as much more  Gorky than that so I don't mind if they see that Aiden's go

t great face the eyes really need to be  nailed at this point because they're a bit dead at the moment it's got real sparkle the light's  sitting there and it's got quite dark irises so the more bright marks in the right place the  more life basically professional artist Keith Robinson lives in Surrey with his wife Carrie  and seven-year-old's Son both have featured in his paintings exhibited at the BP portrait Awards  he wanted his self-portrait to be an honest and direct image of himself at th

is stage of his life  you went at it very quickly didn't you yeah if I couldn't get it as quick as possible then it's  just trying to make the paint do something really I can't wait to just by the size because your  self-portrait is very contained and compressed yes more did you know you were going to do it  this large I was going to do on a bigger canvas I know it's just too much space around it just  looked a bit lost it looked perfectly putting the marks on them making sure the marks don't  t

ake you somewhere where you don't want to go [Music] after spending the best part of the morning on a  subtle drawing one artist has only just started to add paint I have to say from a distance it looked  like you hadn't done anything for the first time you're painting in watercolor which always strikes  me as bit of a high wire act it's my process I have to ignore everybody else and stick to it  because I know if I think oh my goodness I've got to get some paint on the paper I'm going to come 

unstuck because you get it wrong you've fallen off that high wire Piper few established herself as  a professional artist over 30 years ago painting show dogs she now spends more time painting  people and likes the intensity of the Gaze she caught in her self-portrait which took 20 hours  to paint when you're not painting what do you do I'm a magistrate you're a magistrate magistrate  congratulations I've always wondered when he first go in as imagitude do you have imposter syndrome  well you do

n't go in and go hi it's my first day you have to get a very serious hat on sure you  have to judge without fear or favor well I'm going to talk to Ty Kate and Kathleen and tell him  to judge without fear or favor yes that seems good our nine artists are approaching the halfway mark and for one that means it's time to start  a second portrait the hardest thing is just making sure the sunglasses the same size in both  pictures it's kind of like lower 18th century poet on one side and then the mor

e rock star on  the other side it could look quite cool [Music] thank you not 100 with the likeness at  the moment fighting with it a little bit losing it getting it back  is almost there fingers crossed [Music] I'm in a state of tension that it'll  be all right in the end we hope it's not all right we haven't  reached the end yet [Music] [Music] here at Battersea Arts Center the artists have  spent the morning intently studying sitters John Cooper Clark Fern cotton and Hayden Gwynn the  judges

have also been scrutinizing each Artist as they form their opinions two hours in halfway  through so start with Hayden's group Keith is painting very Regal portraits of Hayden it's a big  oversized head you've got the likeness quite early on he was really really focused on that John  hasn't found a likeness but what he has found figure in space it's got a great sphere Becca  Keith and John they're all working with a lot of color I don't know whether it's inspired  by Hayden's sort of orange swea

ter and whether that sort of sent them all off in One Direction  but they're all reveling in color at the moment moving on to Nick Nick is giving us a very  colorful firm I mean I love the way Nick uses color the way it's inflected through the face he  started with a very good drawing of fern the color flecks are all there but they're not Binding  Together to make a form Susie far more color on her than on the canvas at the moment I mean  it's almost like we're waiting for her to kick in to gear

for the patterns and the Splash and I  worry that the color isn't going to be a kind of afterthought Fern's an interesting sister as well  if you could imagine her being in a like a Vermeer painting I don't think any of them have quite  captured that timelessness another extraordinary sitter John Cooper Clark wow Tim has two portraits  on the go double bubble or double trouble sort of started with this fog and John sort of  appeared and he just got better and better and better but he really has

caught something  of John's Essence in this Smoky way I'm really impressed I think it's interesting  that Graham's portrait of John is actually technically too squished you know like when  you write a birthday card and you're a kid and you go happy birthday you run out of  room that's what that painting is like but it somehow works because actually John in  the chair is sort of very Larger than Life but also quite small it's like a crow Pope yes  the one he's a poet he'll appreciate that well i

t's fabulous just sitting around watching  people watching other people [Laughter] I want to see myself looking like Rock Hudson's  better looking kid brother that's the plan anyway [Music] I feel along with the orange that I've come as  the 1970s today which you know it's no bad thing I love to people watch  always I'm having to be still you know it's like my other senses are  sort of ear wigging on yeah I'm enjoying it I'm watching everyone like a hawk iman's very  precise Nick's like a mad Pr

ofessor mixing his paint and Susie's like attacking the canvas so  to sort of sit and watch them is fascinating but it's also excruciating but I can't actually  see what they're doing it's killing me [Music] they say the eyes are the windows to the soul but  if your view through the window is obscured you have to search for character elsewhere we put  you often you'd want to paint the eyes because obviously it gives real sense of Life having  the glint in the eye but we've shown there's so much

character anyway but it's not going  to be as big an issue as it might be [Music] the eyes are kind of the key in a sense to  the personality I might go up to my iPad for that because I can't see much eyes  from it but I am an optician I used to be okay I used to know a bit about it so you  look at an eye in a different way for most of us yes and if they're not correct someone  who knows about eyes will spot it right away yeah we're into the last hour but that's plenty  of time for the canvases

to undergo a total transformation Susie we were worried where the  color was going to come in I know I know when it starts going on it's really exciting so is there  anywhere that you think you're going to build up a lot more color-wise um possibly the hair and down  here you don't know do you this is coming from some place intuitively and it's just finding  its way out there just going for it [Music] foreign [Music] ER Hayden had  purple hair yeah I might make it more purple I like that there's

a lot  of yellow in there too it's really bold there are only 30 minutes remaining have you finished I'm not going to do  a lot because at this stage I could obliterate work that I'm pleased with please  don't obliterate the work of police I won't [Music] I think I'd just like to have  a bit more time to work on the hair a little bit and round it to make  this more of a finished piece but it's got to pick those things that will  make the biggest difference [Music] I think I need to sort out  th

e eyes finish up the hair everything basically thank you our nine artists are nearing the end  of their challenge painting Hayden Gwen John Cooper Clark and fern cotton I get the impression you could stand  there and look at it all day but that's why we give you the time limit yeah we  shot a bit longer really well of course thank you this one looks like John so I think I've  got something that I like the look of artists you have five minutes to go [Music] it's not going to get any better don't 

think I could make it too much worse so I'm probably almost there [Music] still working as you can see but not frantic artists your time is up please put down your  equipment and stand away from your easels [Music] after four hours of intense  creativity from our artists the sitters can at last see the finished portraits and  pick their favorite to take home [Applause] how was it terrific well there's four portraits  of you to look at you could have fooled me I think we should look I don't thin

k yeah  yeah yeah yeah artists turn your easels [Music] I'll say in one sentence wow Misty John yeah fabulous I like this enigmatic isn't it enigmatic as oh hell yeah  it's from The Mists of time fabulous that I had a look at this halfway through and there  was nothing there but uh six miraculous it's uh this painting happened in two ways gradually and  suddenly like sensation all that really thank you that's smashing and you've  really got the gelt there yes bouncing off the background yeah tha

t's uh wow  how do you do that also it's it's kind of nervous which I like rights it's decision time trade  difficile they've all got their own Vibe I wish I was that handsome Dynamite that gold  but I gotta go for the moodiness of it I'm gonna go with Tim's piece to his [Applause]  [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] fun you are a free woman oh I can  move my joints oh okay artists will you please turn around your easels oh my gosh ah oh wow they're also unbelievably  different come a

nd meet them guys oh my God your style is just so Exquisite especially the  eyes it's quite weird because it's sort of like I'm looking into my own eyes they are my eyes  it's spectacular [Music] so inch cut there's so much detail going on there and so delicate and  soft it's really beautiful and hazy I love it so lovely to now see what you've done with  all of those colors I love all of this brilliant chaos up here it's brilliant and  the moments arrived this is excruciatingly difficult when th

ey're all just so unique  and Brilliant but I'm going to go with Nick thank you [Music] so shall we do it uh okay okay artists  can you please take a look your easels there you go okay can I look yes do you have a look yeah I'm loving the sort of way  you've applied the color yeah [Music] I heard you talking about the purple there but it sort of totally works doesn't it  particularly against the White she's quite ferocious isn't she you know my my  children would say perhaps they recognize that

don't make me do this you pick one I'm gonna go with this one [Applause] now the artist's work is over the judges are left  alone with the portraits to take a closer look Susie's made a rather good portrait of fun  she's really caught her very well I felt that she struggled with the lightness actually  fans started to emerge with some of the pencil marks and then it's gone away again I think  iman's really got her color incorrectly that gorgeous Peach tone on the nose that plays  out in the chee

ks I love her brush strokes but it feels to me like they haven't really done  Fern any favors in that bottom half of the jaw thick did something really interesting which  was take his style and deliver something different the colors sing beautifully  and you get a sense of fun absolutely I love this sketchy paint that skirts on the  surface John's not too worried about resolving it there's a problem with the likeness but  I'm interested in the way that he paints I really like the chalky texture

that Rebecca  brings in her work this colorful sense of joyfulness that she found in Hayden  and I think she's caught some of that Keith's likeness was much better early  on but having said that that reflection of a orange jumper under the  chin it is really beautiful there's something really special about Graham's  portrait it is a bit cramped but I think it adds to its charm and I think he knew quite early  on that he probably could get away with it I find a real delicacy in pippa's work and s

omehow  she managed to capture a really strong sense of John's coolness I've got a problem with the  lightness it is like him but it wasn't him as I experienced him [Music] I was a bit worried  about Tim giving us a diptych and I feel very won over and his softness and these weird areas of  focus I think it's he's a very interesting artist first the judges have to get the nine  down to three let's swap these two over they've all got to like this and they've all  got a spirit that's a good little

group actually it's interesting how many questions  it's thrown up it's just fascinating so who have the judges  shortlisted the first artist is Tim gaytonby [Music] is Nick Fair thank you the third artist to  be shortlisted Graham dudridge would have been great to have gone through  but it's not often you get to do something like this experience a whole mad process  so I really have loved every minute [Music] so the first thing to notice is there are two  paintings of one sitter what I like ab

out the diptych from Tim is that you sort of have that  sense of the ghostly character from Dickens or something he's somehow managed to work with  Spirit rather than just the physicality whereas when you look at the painting by Graham there  is something slightly going towards a sort of more caricature or he's he's sort of reduced  the elements to do John Cooper Clark to the power of 10. I agree I think the way Graham's  caught him in very few brush marks I think is masterful I'm really encoura

ged actually once  we get to here and then we see them next to their submissions and I think actually their  submissions are really strong and what they do today complements it and I think that's what  Nick did today because he has got quite a refined style and actually today had to respond to a  totally different set of circumstances and I think the looseness there is absolutely glorious  to do it today on a competition day and really stay loose is courageous I think seeing Nick's  portrait tod

ay makes me appreciate his submission much more well I don't know how you're going to  choose between them all but I'm sure you will make a great choice really hard today foreign  [Music] Tim Nick of course is already an incredible achievement to have reached the short  list but sadly as you well know only one of you could go through to the semi-final the artists  that the judges have selected was successful in capturing the spirit of the sitter as well as  their likeness that artist is [Music]

Tim gaytonby [Music] congratulations it's amazing I mean I didn't  expect to whatsoever so it feels great yeah to think that I took that risk to do the  diptych and judges seem to like him [Music] I think Tim was a very worthy  winner I think he added another dimension of mystery to the piece so in  a sense he sort of exceeded the brief one experience I certainly won't forget  it pressure excitement just amazing day [Applause] where he paints is something I've  never seen before the way he creat

es atmosphere I'm really excited to  see where he goes as an artist I think I'm quite shocked at the moment I  really can't believe that I won today honestly it's amazing [Music] [Music] you know