Jodie Comer Portrait Session - Portrait Artist of the Year - Art Documentary

[Music] foreign [Music] collection where today's artists seem to have a thing about poultry one of them's ground chicken bones into his paint while another one is cracking eggs on her palate now egg temper has been used by many artists in very great murals including the Sistine Chapel so they're in Good Company exactly I read about that in a encyclopedia that's enough it's portrait artists of the year 2019. of today's nine hopeful artists four are professional Martin Ireland Olga Elysee Duncan shoesmith and Colin pethic it's exciting I'm feeling okay you know painting portraits are like walking a tightrope anyway sometimes you crash and burn sometimes you get a result and five are amateur Emily wolf Tom Mead Tasha Davey Toby Michael and Becca train I am most worried about ears they tend to look a bit like prawns when I do them and hoping that it comes together and it's not just a muddy mess these artists will be faced with three surprise celebrity sitters I was hoping for something interesting but this really takes the risk here with only four hours to complete a portrait I'm on the ropes yeah you've just gotta have a bit of Blind Faith got a crack on their talent will be scrutinized by our expert judges [Music] independent curator Kathleen Soriano award-winning artist taishan Schoenberg and art historian Kate Bryan if he messes it up I think it would be one that I might not recover from at stake is a ten thousand pound commission to paint Global singing Legends sir Tom Jones for the national museum of Wales so who can paint Under Pressure Feels Like Everything could go wrong at this point and claim a place in the semi-final you look very relaxed and calm do you feel that way it's all right you want it to become yeah foreign [Music] before the contest Begins the judges review the self-portraits the artists submitted well judges another wall as glorious as ever the first picture here a very inventive use at a very domestic time we all understand brushing our teeth looking at ourselves literally in the mirror what I think works really well is that the fragmentation somehow focuses the eye on the two self-portraits and if you look at the smaller one it's absolutely precious I think there's just something very Frank about this one completely looking at us take me as you find me there's partly to do with its stylization I think you know the eyes are made slightly larger it's a very sort of graphic quality to the face but that wonderful Rich red background now this is painted from an old photograph which is used to do the modern painting it seems to me something quite Majestic you know that feeling when maybe you turn your face towards the sun yeah the hero artist deep in thought the glasses are such a brilliant thing they're oversized the clothing seems oversized but nothing really detracts from the intentness of that gaze it's almost illustrative in its level of detail but it's also very painterly if you look at the neck you can see the complexities of colors that she's used I think it speaks of a completely different artistic tradition it feels like it's Eastern European and taste can be different things in different parts of the world I like the way she's arranged her body as an abstract shape it looks very beautiful you can feel the weight of the face and the way he's built it it really is an architectural structure it's just a sort of lovely grubby honest bit of painting very inventive and I like the idea that he's used as a fragment of a mirror you can see it's broken off we want something that surprises us and that's exactly what this did the treatment of the face is really interesting because this side you've got natural light in this side the electric light if he doesn't get the lighting right today I'll be quite disappointed the skin tones are beautifully painted those lips are fantastic and there's a gentleness to the way in which she's portrayed himself it's very rare to find a convincing laughing portrait but this one works she is actually laughing she really is the eyes are correct the way the nose bunches up the cheeks everything about it is full of joy [Music] time to reveal today's three mystery sitters artists your sitter today is best known for her emotive and compelling TV roles whether as an abducted teenager in 13 or the home wrecking Other Woman in Dr Foster it's Jody coma more recently Jody's received Global critical Acclaim for her role as a psychopathic assassin in the hit TV series killing Eve how you feeling about today okay yeah yeah I'm excited I'm really looking forward to seeing what you guys do I'm a bit of a feature but I'll be on my best behavior yeah a bit of fidgeting is allowed isn't it occasionally art is your sister today is a film actor who went to the darker side as one of Voldemort's evil snatchers in the Harry Potter films so please have your wands and your paintbrushes ready and welcome Nick morale Nick's prominent career spans three decades in theater film and television having first shot to fame as Eddie the card shop in cult British gangster film Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels well Nick you paint a little yourself don't you yeah I'm just above terrible terrible plus exactly yeah terrible plus a bad minus now you brought your coat with you yeah my I'm a big fan of Colombo no it was I just thought I'd break the color up a little bit because I saw that it was blue and I'm wearing blue so instead of leaving it in the cloak room downstairs I thought I'd throw it over my lap and give you something to do artists your sitter today has been described by fashion Bible Vogue magazine as England's most eccentric dresser I think it's fair to say his Mantra is more is more please welcome Daniel Lismore artist celebrity stylist and fashion icon Daniel has designed outfits for stars including Nicki Minaj Rita Ora and Mariah Carey [Applause] well I'm Bob Smith Daniel I didn't know whether to shake your hands or kneel before you and pledge you look absolutely stunning thank you morning where morning where can you talk us through the look or is it um I don't know I live my life as art and this is just um this is what happened this morning right so what are you looking for today just a tight close-up of your face is that what you want them to paint I thought I'd give you options you know like I thought I'd give you something to look at well you've certainly done that it's just an amazing array of detail and extraordinary stuff for you to get your teeth into it's a someone tells you to like sit they think oh my God how do I sit down what sort of eye line would work for you all I like I like quite confrontational yeah I can give you the crazy eye yeah what are we going to do about the code I think it looks it's fantastic how it is yeah I'm not sure sure about the sort of hand yeah so is there any way you'd like Daniel to sit if it's okay with the other two artists face somewhere around there is that okay that's fine good luck yeah we'll need it thank you artists I hope you're feeling inspired because your challenge is about to begin you have four hours to complete your portraits and your time starts now [Music] most of today's artists are starting by focusing immediately on their canvas [Music] but one is more concerned with the character of her sitter I'm gonna take a picture of you do you want to do a laugh or did you under a smile or whichever you whatever you do you would you rather something happier do you feel like that captures your personality better than a strict face let's go I like to think I'm a fun person yeah that should be good thank you perfect thank you I'm really happy with my sister she's such a beautiful lady who just glows and I decided to take a photo of her smiling because I think that's what came out more than like a serious face at 17 years old a level student Tasha Davey is the youngest artist in this year's competition her self-portrait took 24 hours to complete and impressed the judges with its expressive quality Tasha we thought your submission really stood out because it was such a convincing laughter it wasn't even just a smile I'm quite excited to see here that you've caught an expression as well although we see teeth which we so rarely see on portrait artist of the year yeah I really just like to capture the personality the most because I like to tell like a story of my pieces and I could tell as soon as I met her she was such a lovely puppy person and I thought I just have to capture it yeah you're quite Brave with the scale yeah what leads you to that size it just allows me to get in so much more detail but tonally you've got loads more work to do haven't you because you've given yourself a lot more of a surface area so you've made it harder for yourself yeah possibly you better go [Music] foreign [Music] Duncan you've gone off like a rocket it's got a beautiful liners already oh bless you now I understand that like me you have small kids yeah yeah so like me have you come here today for a bit of a rest yes this is Lovely isn't it Bliss Duncan shoesmith is a professional artist from Wiltshire he juggles Painting At Home in his garage with raising his three young children who were pivotal in his preparation for today to train I've kept the door open so that the kids coming in annoying ask me questions spilling stuff knocking stuff over to get used to the interference of today and the annoyance it's very bad radio reception there so I've had the radio on so just intimately cutting in and out so if I come running up to you and Shout traffic reports in your ears [Music] well Martin I saw the look in your eye when when Daniel came in yeah what do you make of it we have a fabric situation here metallic fabric if I'd known I've brought my metal paints it's quite a challenge it is it's not a portrait it's a fashion statement it is indeed Martin Ireland is a professional artist from London having taught life drawing classes for over 20 years he's developed a unique approach for portraying any sitter you've made an incredible start you're not intimidated by this no you just have to open up your mind and just to say what am I looking at I think you think you have to read into it very Tales nightmares communities as a king a queen you could not have expected a more unusual Challenge and you're smiling at the prospect well that's very good news for all of us while nobody has come dressed for the occasion quite like Daniel one artist has carefully considered his wardrobe for today I'm wearing the same shirt I wore in my self-portrait it's probably my favorite show actually it's not like a trademark or anything but you know it's brought me luck so far I mean can't be that bad Toby Michael is in his final year at Winchester School of Art having successfully featured an item of clothing in his submission painting is planning something similar today Toby how's it going looking doing all right that's definitely Nick Moran yeah I've scaled him down a little bit because I wanted to get a bit of that coat in there are you going to include that do you think you are absolutely it breaks up a little bit it actually works well with his skin tone okay good luck thanks the artists are one hour into their challenge [Music] you've just gotta have a bit of Blind Faith might be disaster might not we'll pull through you've got to crack on oh slow start getting all the gridding done still at that kind of problem solving station but it's getting there [Music] it's going to be a bit of a challenge with that metal and which head do I paint first I was hoping for something interesting but um this really takes the risk here [Music] for a place in the semi-final our nine artists are into their second hour painting actors Nick Moran Jody coma and fashion designer Daniel Lismore whose appearance has led to some bold compositional decisions [Music] the face is the most important thing and thankfully there's enough outfit if from shoulders up so I think that captures enough of him but there's a lot more to take on here so we'll see Fine Art degree student Tom Mead is studying at the University of Arts Wimbledon influenced by a love of Cinema he aims to create motion in his paintings some were very taken with your approach we've got not just one portrait there but all these refractions I wanted to get something that gives you a sense of moving around here moving in the room there's some nice angles in there that you can't quite get based on and I'd like to include that somehow and is that because it gives you a sense that it can be sort of a multi-faceted view of someone definitely I'm really inspired by film the idea of a painting be more of a film still that has a bit of movement so you get the idea of what's going on in that scene more than just a photograph which is also why a landscape get them all at 16 by nine feeling of a film [Music] hello Colin hello Stephen I approached you with some trepidation really because I understand there are ground chicken bones at work yes if you grind the middle wings of a chicken bone into the gesso it gives me the desired ground that I like to work on okay I mean my neighbors and friends just keep sort of saving chicken bones I come home with his bags on my front doorstep as long as you know why they're there that's fine if I came home to find a bag of chicken bones on my doorstep I'd move a former bricklayer Colin pethic became a professional artist after a back injury stopped him from working but it was another life-changing event that led him to entering the competition iconic there's a picture of someone over there oh yeah well that's my um dear departed wife unfortunately she was an artist and I lost her back in October I'm sorry it's okay it just gets you a little bit yeah um so really why I'm here today is part you know she loved the program like I did and you know she always encouraged me to do it and I didn't it wasn't until she was gone I was still a busy nursing her that I had the time to actually enter you know so so you know I brought that up you know she's with me like something right too yeah she would have loved to have been here well you're here because of hers yeah that's it really yeah thank you each week our sets reference a period or movement in art history what's today's theme the Contemporary taker playful interpretation of the Baroque era of the Baroque Era okay so we have the opulence of the Baroque Era so we have beautiful draperies we've got a play on marbling because marble is ubiquitous of the Baroque Era and behind us is a stylized version of Candlelight if we generally think of the Baroque Era we think of drama we think of dark and light kuroscuro we know that Caravaggio the great Baroque painter used Candlelight to great effect and so this is a contemporary version of it and it emanates behind just for me it does hinder the religious symbolism of the Halo too don't you think yeah which fits perfectly into the Brock how is Jody doing as a sitter she's very beautiful as a Portrait Painter of course one well-lived in ravaged faces there's a lot to paint but her bone structure is beautiful and um our art is doing rather well [Music] I'm super excited I've actually never had a portrait painted of me before I'm quite a fidget so four hours being still to me was going to be a challenge but no it's been really enjoyable so Kate theme of the day I'm assuming is Mediterranean swimming pools close uh we're in the Baroque okay so you could be transported to a Mediterranean swimming pool but it'd have to be in the 17th century so Nick behind us has brought a Macintosh which is I assume a welcome yeah I think it's nice for the artists have something else to engage with they may or may not paint it you might be disappointed he's a very good sister it's very still quite composed quite calm good cheekbones good cheekbones and I think the blue offsets him it's quite cool seen um they should do well with them as long as I'm not too old too bald and too ugly I'll be perfectly happy with the outcome that's it I'd like to be 10 years younger please thank you [Music] now Kathleen this this rock painting often used Fabric or drapes and to suggest that lusciousness so lots of rich velvets or brocades we've got rather A baroque sitter what do you think he's the most perfect person to sit for a baroque day I mean Daniel is just Baroque personified in the 21st century he's really quite special foreign artists any art is great and if they Capture Me In segments or they don't put my face in it or they don't put the jewelry in it it'll be great whatever they do as if completing a portrait in four hours isn't challenging enough one artist is using a medium that requires skillful last minute creation to make tempera you want to separate the white of the egg from the yolk and then you roll the egg yolk around on a bit of kitchen roll or in the palms of your hands pierce it and you just want the inside you don't want the sack mix that with water and then I just choose little bits of pigment and I mix them together with your palette knife tempura has that great translucent quality the colors glow through Emily Wolfe is an amateur artist from Dorset she painted Soul Campbell in portrait artist of the year 2014 and has since swapped her palette of oils for egg tempera an ancient and demanding medium Emily tell me it is tempera dries at the moment you put it on pretty much yeah a few seconds to move it but and then you can layer it immediately put another layer at the top of it so how do you make sure that your palette doesn't dry out it does it does I just keep mixing new bits okay well it sounds like a painstaking technique so I'll let you get on with it thank you foreign [Music] challenging because Daniel's wearing like really big theatrical lipstick so I can see his lip line and where he's painted the lipstick on around that and I don't know which one to go with how to get that in there how to have that reading it's not like I've just done a big red smoosh amateur artist Becca train is an office manager from Kent despite showing artistic talent at school she gave up painting for over a decade until a recent life drawing class reignited her passion Becca I've known Daniel for quite a few years now you've caught something off him which is getting close to a sort of a glower which you do seize from sometimes in his professional photographs why is that the look that spoke to you I think it's the whole headdress and Crown and stuff or something kind of like Regal or Joe navaki about it you definitely caught the dramatic side of him I mean not that he's remotely dramatic in all of that outfit [Music] thank you now Olga this is the most brilliantly impactful painting why have you chosen to use these colors because I like putting unusual colors for the skin tones right to make it in my style to make it interesting professional artist Olga Elise is from Moldova now based in London she hand paints luxury fashion accessories and describes her painting style as fantastic reality [Music] is this in the tradition of your painting from your home back in Moldova I learned to paint when I was a very young girl I went to Children's School of Art and I learned to paint from life I think that the technique is quite traditional but the colors makes it very modern well it's very good I hope you're enjoying yourself because it's a strange experience yeah the artists are almost halfway through their challenge with two hours left to complete their portraits it's pretty terrifying but this is not normal conditions this whole journey is full of anxiety more than the usual painting would be my main problem is trying to like not be overalled by it is like being in an exhibition of your own work whilst you're doing it which is quite strange and one of those people that wing it so you just start with a mistake and just keep correcting those mistakes it's kind of a life philosophy really for an artist this is hard work if you're an author this is like reading out your first drafts before the rubbish gets taken out it's bearing your soul really [Music] I have to car crash my way through an emergency it's the Apollo 13 syndrome I have to find it air breathing apparatus out of a toilet roll and a bit of sticky black plastic [Music] here at the Wallace collection nine competitive artists are two hours into their 4r challenge painting Daniel Lismore Jody coma and Nick Moran I do a lot of demonstrating you see I don't get to paint Olivia's handsome as this Chapel flattering there's no prizes for flattery I'm sorry I'm not the judge so halfway through what are the judges thinking [Music] the Roundup of how they're doing Jody is sitting very still she's got Duncan over there using big slabs of color I like what Duncan's doing it's the kind of painting that's actually good to watch emerge Judy is a rather more refined creature than I see in his painting and I'm hoping that will eventually come through next to him is Emily very different style she's focusing more I think on that translucency that she loves to get from the tempera but I want to feel come to life a little bit and keeps going the egg temper should come into its own and we should get a very different quality to everybody else's in the section to our left we have the extraordinarily dressed Daniel when Daniel came in I thought this is too much information and all of them in some way of doing rather well Tom's has been lovely from the word go and it's the kind of artwork you inform a protective fence around that you just don't want anything to go wrong producing something that's really sensitive I just keeping my fingers crossed for the rest of the afternoon if he messes it up I think it would be one that I might not recover from Becca's giving us something quite luscious I like the scale of it I like the color tone the energy as opposed to Tom I think Becca's problem might be not enough time Nick Moran in the final segment Dave you took a long time my God he took a long time to get going but the stories then is building up nicely he talks about putting all the coat and stuff I know when he's got time to do that and Colin seems to be trying to find Nick both working more and more paint onto his canvas but I like the way he puts paint down I think all the colors are working really beautifully I think we would get like this we know how good a painter is in his submission he's still got a couple of powers maintaining their focus Under Pressure can be demanding for the artists but what's it like for their sitters sit there and do nothing sounds far less tiring than it actually is you know you're trying to concentrate you're trying to maintain something for them I'm not delivering coal you know but it's it's actually what's hiring than I thought [Music] you still have a freedom to move or scratch your nose I haven't got a clue what to expect so that's the most exciting part yeah it used to be the model for Life drawing classes years ago so I'm kind of used to it but I never had any anything on in those days so it's very different [Music] no matter who the sitter is every face has its own challenging characteristics slowly the face is getting tighter you're aware that say on the cheek not online but on anywhere with cheekbones that it's going to come in and then the jewel will connect here you're looking for Shadows the nose obviously not just a triangle what's the bone doing there that you know all this sort of thing cracking bones structure and this is what I'm used to dealing with [Music] and then [Music] a startling sitter yeah yeah yes um quite hard face it'd be quite hard to get the likeness underneath all the you know gear yeah yeah new but you have and that's why I think it's remarkable that you've actually been able to just strip away the stuff that Daniel's range enough to get a really good lightness do you feel the pressure of the time yeah definitely that's that's gonna well I thought that'd be the main issue until that's all yeah having overcome the initial surprise that their flamboyant sitter the artist painting Daniel have progressed with varying interpretations hello Martin oh hello giving yourself enough to do yes more than enough down to below the knees yeah well it's the whole story it's the Fabrics it's the clothes that's the story there's something about the chain Mill he looks like a knight going into battle well that's it it's his armor plating right this is protecting Veil and that's the title you've given the painting a title yeah artists have just half an hour left and are feeling the pressure it's terrible can I come back tomorrow and do four more hours on top of this four hours please it's okay you should never be completely happy with what you do otherwise you just stop there's always room for improvement [Music] I can't even like think where I am right now if I stop for a minute I probably have a panic attack or something [Music] it's like climbing a mountain and it's getting steeper addressing that little Pebble up that mountain is getting harder as we get into the detail [Music] mostly worried about the eyes I need to get them perfect for carry on anything else I can completely ruin a painting if you mess that up [Music] nine artists and nearing the end of their four-hour challenge painting Nick Moran Jody coma and Daniel Lismore Feels Like Everything could go wrong at this point I just got mate the most of the time what's left I think but it's just making sure I don't ruin it now thank you I kind of have to watch it because I can sort of kill it sometimes push it over a cliff so you can overwork things you know [Music] it's got to a point I don't want to muck it up I think there's a lightness there I think there's a nice balance within the picture to take it on to a whole new level of crowd days artists you have 10 minutes left [Music] it's a Race Against Time now to get as many details in as they can because that's what I want to show with tempura but I don't know if I'm going to get enough done doing a few little details here and there not doing anything huge because I think the huge stuff has already been done hopefully I don't want to go run around the room and kick everyone else's easel over now I'm the only one Martin what can you do now to make it a masterpiece try and pick out the glitty bits the glitty bits [Music] artists your time is up please put down your equipment and stand away from your easels it's time to reveal the completed portraits of Daniel Lismore Nick Moran and Jody coma and for them to pick their favorite to keep well Nick you've completed your sitting are you relieved I've never worked harder uh no I'm intrigued more than relieved I mean you know I really want everybody to do themselves Justice and I'm really Keen to see everything okay artists turn your easels round they're all excellent and they all represent something slightly different as well it's the same Faith thinking thinking three different things it's a very interesting choice of colors and I like the way that the painting hovers between detail and a deliberately vague abstract background you want to look more because you want to know what that man's thinking that's tremendous in the time frame and you've got the raincoating foreign struck most by is the boldness of the brush strokes The Closer you get the more you can appreciate the strength of the paint now you have to make a choice one only to take with you home any me anymore um I'm gonna opt for Collins uh I I don't know I'll sign the others thank you Jody how was it it was God it was a lot easier than I thought it was going to be purely because I fed just a lot but it was strangely therapeutic so let's not delay any longer artists please turn your easels oh my gosh [Music] I feel like there's a real strength I really like the colors I think it's amazing love the hair thank you it's incredible there's something about the mouth on this which I feel is spot on I love the color as well again the hair I love this the ability to take a picture capture an emotion and then imitate the smile like that is such a skill I love the green of the eyes right Jody need you to pick one of these to take home with you my heart's really pounding um [Music] I think Emily's yeah [Music] artists please turn your easels laughs [Music] I love them that's good it looks like my auntie strangely they're beautiful I want all of them I love how you've captured the fabric and I can see all the things that I just like about myself in there also which is you know a true representation it really looks like me usually when people paint me it's too clean and I can see that I'm tired in this it's amazing thank you thank you very much you've captured how I feel right now and you've got the eyes right it's kind of like a nightmare version of me and I love it [Music] So Daniel you're gonna have to pick one of these to take home with you one and only one I think because it makes me feel like I'm being haunted by my own self I think I will take home your one thank you thank you [Applause] well the artists take a break the judges discuss the day's works Colin was really Keen to get the paint down and find Nick within the paint and I think he succeeded actually there are sections of that head that which are done very well you know Nick's right eyes beautifully painted the nose really well observed Toby's submission was so brilliant and I feel that we're getting partly towards what you can achieve here there are moments which are just absolutely stunning their forehead and that eye just going towards the nose they just beautiful oldest portrait of nectar day was stymied somewhere by the lack of invention I love her stylization I love looking at art that is slightly outside of our taste range but done very well and her submission certainly was that these colors are wild Becca's brilliantly ambitious she went for this very big head but I think she pulled it off he does have a sort of glower that he can put on and I think she captured that I think it's a fabulous lightness I think what Tom does really well is he's really captured that stately Grace that Daniel has there's this film equality but there's also a really human quality I was so excited when I saw Martin start this morning I thought I hear somebody's going to tackle Daniel in all his glory as a day wore on it lost its Vitality he left painting the face too late Tasha was very ambitious producing such a large head she needs a lot of time to get all the detail in that really makes her paintings work I think she's treated the skin exceptionally well I think she could have done better job if it was smaller today I think Emily caught an incredible intensity from Jody Stern but beautiful what she's done today is lovely Duncan's been able to capture the lighting on Jody and there's some fabulous colors in the shadows here the fragmentation with the paint on the face slightly irritates and distracts me me but overall I think it's a fabulous portrait study before choosing the winning portrait the judges narrow their selection to a short list of three we've got too many good ones today there's a very powerful three there they all seem to make each other Stronger by being together I'm actually very happy with those three as well [Music] artists it's been a pleasure and a privilege to watch your creative talent and your commitment today we've enjoyed your being here as you know the judges are only allowed to select three artists to shortlist and the first artist on that shortlist is Duncan shoesmith [Music] and the second artist is Tom Mead [Music] the third ask is to be shortlisted Toby Michael [Music] iterations to the rest of you it doesn't mean that we didn't appreciate your work and enjoy its success so thank you very much indeed foreign ER was very exciting but I don't know if my money will be on me [Applause] taking into consideration the submissions the artists entered with alongside today's portraits helps the judges pick their winner six very powerful portraits yeah looking at us definitely we're very pleased with our short list this afternoon great so we have Duncan's first of all Jody's almost a sculptural Informer and he was really looking for that construction of her head the power comes from the way Duncan puts on paint there's a confidence in it there are similarities but he's self-portrait and his portrait of Jody in the way the Marx and the palette is used it's just such a powerful portrait I just think that Duncan is someone who knows exactly who he is as an artist it was a good painting all day really then we moved to the nocturnal world of Toby there's some beautiful brilliant touches and there is a kind of melancholy narrative that comes from the painting the way in which he absorbed the colors from the background made it seeing harmoniously with Nick's jacket just very clever Toby's submission is absolutely Sensational it's got a maturity I think he's full of potential and then Tom has used another fractured face is that a trick he's used before or has there had been a development well I think what he does is really authentic Tom doesn't use the this way of composing reality is a trick it's just incredibly striking to see someone so young and be able to produce two really arresting paintings when you look at Tom's self-portrait you see it as an exercise in the art of looking and he does it with such Simplicity and Grace I think Tom got better today there's a completeness of the vision in his portrait of Daniel he just stepped up so how are you going to choose between these three oh not fun we've had too good a day I mean it's a really high quality problem right well I look forward to seeing how you solve it Duncan Toby Tom we usually usually at this stage choose one person to go through to the semi-final however the judges today have found it so difficult to make one selection because the standard has been so high so we're putting two artists through to the semi-final the first of these artists is Duncan shoesmith [Applause] the second artist going through to the semi-final today is Tom Mead [Music] and Toby's paintings were incredible so I couldn't have asked for anything better so happy I'm feeling quite speechless at the moment quite overwhelmed I'm sure disappointed myself but it's been a really really wonderful experience I thought Tom and Duncan's bushes were excellent they both deserved to go through [Applause] blown away yeah semi-final just gotta go in there charging we've had an incredible day we've had some really good art it was so good in fact all three of us felt that in our short lists were two really good artists on the one hand we had Duncan great painter great understand of how to manipulate paint produce beautiful portraits on the other hand with young Tom evolving from his self-portrait today he went up a gear and we really want to see what they're going to produce in the semi-final [Music] thank you [Music] [Music]

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