Television

Galleries on Demand A painting direct to your living room for every week of 2016. I present 52 masterpieces from the UK’s permanent collections. Spanning several countries and 500 years worth of art, the series is designed to allow us time to stop and reflect. The ten minute introduction opens the painting up and [...]

Sky Arts Portrait Artist of The Year In 2013 Sky Arts launched a painting competition series Portrait Artist of the Year presented by Frank Skinner and Joan Bakewell. The series is judged by art experts Tai-Shan Schierenberg, Kathleen Soriano and Kate Bryan. Nick Lord won the first series and was awarded a [...]

The Culture Show BBC2 RA Summer show special with Alastair Sooke 2013 The art critic, and my art tv hero, Alastair Sooke challenged me to see which of us could best predict which works the prestigious Royal Academicians would select for the annual Summer Exhibition. I won. No big deal. FURTHER INFORMATION [...]

The Mystery of Lost Caravaggio Operazione Caravaggio (Sky Arts Italy) aired with the title The Mystery of The Lost Caravaggio for Sky Arts UK in January 2016. This pan european Sky Arts production investigated a painting by the great Roman painter Caravaggio that is believed to have been stolen by the mafia. [...]

The Culture Show Masterpieces of Chinese Painting BBC2 2013 The ancient art of Chinese painting is one of the oldest continuous artistic traditions in history. For a one hour special for BBC2’s flagship arts programme The Culture Show, I travelled to China to find out more about this tradition. The programme coincided with a [...]

Sky Arts Landscape Artist of The Year In 2015 Sky Arts introduced a development of the Portrait Artist of the Year competition for landscape painters called Landscape Artist of the Year in association with National Trust. The first series was won by Nerine McIntyre and she was awarded a commission to paint [...]