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I painted a Madame de Pompadour portrait for the BBC for an episode of Doctor Who. It is the actor Sophia Myles as Madame de Pompadour in the episode The Girl in the Fireplace. The episode takes place in multiple time periods as the Tenth Doctor, Rose Tyler and Mickey Smith find time windows leading to 18th century France and Clockwork Droids use them to stalk Madame de Pompadour through her life. Doctor Who writer Russell T Davies described the episode as a love story for the Doctor. The Girl in the Fireplace was well-received by most critics despite the time constraints imposed on the plot. The episode was nominated for a Nebula Award and won the 2007 Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation, Short Form. I referenced one of François Boucher‘s paintings as a study, and painted Sophia’s face using one of her publicity photos. I would’ve preferred to have photographed her in full costume and wig, but sadly time didn’t permit. Available as a print only.
Print:Giclee on Fine Art Paper
Size:8 W x 10 H x 0.1 D in
Size with Frame:13.25 W x 15.25 H x 1.2 D in
Frame:White
Ready to Hang:Yes
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Born in Burnley, Lancashire in 1968. Based in Cardiff. My ambition is to live in a castle and keep chickens and goats. From a young age I was always drawing or making things. I would draw on anything – the white card that came folded up in my grandad’s shirts, the oval bit you took out of a tissue box to reveal the tissues, cardboard toilet roll inserts; I created whole families out of them! So I imagined I would eventually study Fine Art. Art was of course my favourite subject in school. It was on a school trip to the National Art Gallery in London aged 12 that my obsession for 16th and 17th Century portraiture began. I stood transfixed in front of Jan van Eyck’s ‘Man in a Red Turban’ and fell in love. Not so much with the intriguing, enigmatic looking man staring out at me, but with the mesmerising quality of the style. It still remains one of my favourite paintings to this day. The human face mesmerises me and I’ll catch myself staring at people’s faces when they are talking to me. I become distracted by how the light is catching their philtrum or the reflection in their iris or how the pigment of the skin changes when it gets thinner around the eye. I hope I don’t make people too uncomfortable when I do this… I’m listening to what they’re saying, honest!
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