Gallery show opens this month | JPF Weekly

I’m hanging a portrait show at Burgh House in Hampstead, later this month. If you’re in London, come and see it.

If you’re not, some of the work is unfolding online.

Twenty or so pictures, made over six years. Publishers in their offices. A head teacher in front of her all-male predecessors. A journalist in her Wiltshire study, in a jumper she knitted herself. A City lawyer packing up his office. Two artists with a stuffed raven.

That’s me on the carpet, drawing Shehan Karunatilaka at his publisher’s house when he came to London to collect the Booker Prize.

If you can’t come – because you’re not in London, or you’re away that week, or life is happening – the show is also unfolding online, one portrait at a time. A few starting points:

The whole set of portraits as they go live: Contain Multitudes
The arc behind it – how a reporter’s notebook gave way to a sketch pad
Where it started: Ayla Lepine, the priest who commissioned me to draw her congregation and turned my work outward.

If you can come, do say hello.

JPF