Fresh Paint

Felicity Gill

Already a hugely talented and successful portrait artist, it feels like Felicity Gill is on the cusp of a major breakthrough in her painting career. Her portfolio includes fresh likenesses of the likes of Joan Bakewell and Boris Johnson, the latter completed when the new PM was still Mayor of London and resulting in what is surely Felicity’s highest career accolade so far – an Artists & Illustrators front cover.

Nevertheless, the Kent artist has been growing frustrated by the limitations of a conventional sitting. “I have always thought that photographic portraits show just a fleeting moment and therefore often don’t quite look like the subject, whose face constantly changes with millions of micro-expressions,”