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Sting Drawing
United Kingdom
Drawing, Charcoal on Paper
Size: 22 W x 30 H x 0.2 D in
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About The Artwork
The singer Sting, was attending the Hay on Wye Literary Festival in 2009. I was the official artist in residence. He agreed to sit for me in the Green Room. He was keen to talk about himself and his father. He told me his father was a milkman in the north of England where they lived. His father would get up at 4.00am to go off to deliver the milk in glass bottles. This woke Sting up. Then he explained that is why he gets up at 6.00am each morning, because of what happened as a young boy. He told me he had never sat for a portrait before. It was a pleasure to be with him. I found him very modest. As ever he has a T shirt on. He used to be a school teacher and that is where 'Don't stand so close to me' comes from. A student standing too close to the teacher.
Details & Dimensions
Drawing:Charcoal on Paper
Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork
Size:22 W x 30 H x 0.2 D in
Frame:Not Framed
Ready to Hang:Not applicable
Packaging:Ships Rolled in a Tube
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United Kingdom
I have been painting and drawing for over 35 years. I have done this in eight countries. Hillary Clinton has one of my Afghanistan portraits of a woman, where I lived for three and a half years. I have two books published for the British Museum, Shakespeare & Friends which features portraits of major British writers which I did at Hay on Wye Literary Festival and the Oxford Literary Festival. The other book Afghanistan Portraits is a collection of charcoal portraits drawn across the country, many in remote villages many miles from Kabul. I was Artist in Residence at 10 Downing St from 2006-2007 while Tony Blair was Prime Minister.
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