Private view, Tuesday 18 August | JPF Weekly

In case you missed my previous note, you’re invited:

Portraits by John-Paul Flintoff

Digital painting of two people in a gallery: a woman, left, stands with hands on hips in white top and green trousers. Right, a man in a wide-brimmed dark hat, striped shirt and waistcoat sits on a chair holding a raven on his lap. Behind them, a row of small colourful pictures on a pale wall. Above the image, the words Contain Multitudes are handwritten in white on a magenta blob.

PRIVATE VIEW, TUESDAY 18 AUGUST 2026
6pm to 8pm
Burgh House, New End Square, London NW3 1LT

There was no launch party for A Speccy Man Has A Breakdown, and this is my way to thank people like you who backed the book.

Please reply to this email if you can make it, so I know who to look out for.

After that, the show is free to visit, from Wednesday 19 to Saturday 23 August, 10am to 4pm.

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 – from a reporter’s notebook to a sketch pad
- Where it started: Ayla Lepine, the priest who commissioned me to draw her congregation and turned my work outward.

You backed A Speccy Man Has A Breakdown. Whether you come to Burgh House or not, this show is my way of saying thank you.

Circular blurry photo of John-Paul Flintoff, looking right. Warm yellow stripes across top and bottom, and handwritten "Yours Truly" in electric blue, with arrows pointing to sketched self-portraits on wall and on T-shirt

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