Richard Smith at Kingly Court - 120.0cm x 90.0cm - Acrylic on Canvas - April 21014

A portrait of the painter Richard Smith at his viewing evening at Kingly Court in Soho during the spring of 2014.  An honest portrayal of a friend as he stands in front of his show’s highlight painting.  

Although figurative at its core, I've tried to create a colour-field background and have abstracted elements such as his scarf, keeping it loose and gestural. With a predominantly teal background and purple clothes and lilac pink coloured flesh tones, I decided to paint this at a larger scale of 4-ft by 3-ft wide to aid the impact of the colour.