Lorna May Wadsworth
“Nothing’s ever fallen in my lap, I’ve always seen something and gone for it”
When did you receive your first portrait commission?
When I was 14 or 15, I’d had commissions to paint people’s children. I remember one time a man in a shop got me to paint his wife from photos. He loved the painting, but when he showed it to her she hated it, so he refused to pay me. It was a really important learning curve: don’t
