Painting: That Time, SPA 2024 Finalist

Featuring in the Scottish Portrait Awards 2024. A painting started some time ago but finally finished only in February of 2024. When I started this I had no beard, now I have a beard. My three year old son refers to this picture as ‘Mr No Beard’. It has been hanging on the stair where we say goodnight to Mr No Beard on the way to bed as a matter of tradition. He’s been asking lately where Mr No Beard is, “on his holidays in Edinburgh” we say.

This was painted on hardboard mounted on an old silk screen frame salvaged from the skip at the college where I work.

There’s an artists film from me that accompanies this piece for the SPA, you can view here in context with some of the other amazing works from The Scottish Portrait Awards 2024.

..or below on it’s own: