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I have watched ‘The British Face’ several times now….a DVD about portraiture, in association with London’s National Portrait Gallery by the Irish actress and theate director Fiona Shaw. What a relevation!!. Shaw interviews painters such as Stuart Pearson Wright to Marc Quinn. From Francis Bacon to Freud. I feel portraits are still important….they are traces of the closeness and complexity between two people. I dont flatter the ego and vanity of the person I am painting. I have realised that its all about how I see the people I paint. The more paintings I do….I realise they reveal more about me than I could of ever had realised…