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Jeff

Midghall

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Patient - Doctor
Exhibited in the gallery of Cass Art in Islington, along with the work of other BP Portrait Award artists.

Finding a photo of myself that my father had kept in his wallet for over half a century was extremely meaningful, especially as it was so worn and faded, as though it had been taken out and put back in many times. I had to reinvent it in paint. When painting I often start from a photographic reference then subvert it. They can be a starting point, the image can be reimagined by the materiality of paint, Thick impasto, thin glazes, scratched, scraped, enlarged, reduced all the time maintaing the images origin. Not, to make a photorealist copy of the photograph, but my personal reinterpretation, painted over a thickly textured previous work, I wanted to give it that Portrait of Dorian Grey quality, as I obviously never grew older in his eyes, kept hidden away in his wallet like his own personal attic. Shortlisted fot the Ruth Borchard Self Portrait Prize 2023.
Mixed media on canvas 20 x 60cm.

Minime:
This portrait was my entry for the Sky Arts Portrait Artist of the Year 2020, It and I were selected to take part in the programme. Recordings were in April 2019, unfortunately due to a death in the family, I had to withdraw from the programme just before filming began.
Now it has also been selected for and highly commended in the Ruth Borchard Self-portrait Prize 2021.

© 2026 by Jeff Midghall

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