Judging for the british art prize…

Winner of Sky Arts Portrait Artist of the Year in 2023, Wendy Barratt is fascinated by faces and figures, and after a career in graphic design, now paints full-time in her studio in East Sussex. Wendy

As someone who used to draw the inner workings of machinery for a living, I was always destined to prefer the precision of coloured pencils over more expressive media. Though I enjoy both, it is the r

Dominic Carter talks to the concept artist about what keeps him motivated and the advantages of using physical sketchbooks