Diary of a Foundling Artist

I finally got a call. The Foundling Museum had managed to round up three of their trustees willing to have their portraits taken. They were the Chair, Dr Alan Borg, CBE (Director and Secretary of the Victoria and Albert Museum, 1995 – 2001), Carolyn Steen (former chair) child psychologist, Michael Parker chief exec Saatchi & Saatchi (I think). Had I known all this beforehand I might have been nervous. The whole thing went really well, I just roughly set up the camera in front of Hogarth’s portrait of Coram, held down the quick shot button and chatted to them while they took turns standing on my cunningly placed yellow post-it note. The whole thing was fairly arbitary and hopefully not too controlled. Unlike the painted portraits which surrounded us the whole ‘sitting’ took about 12 minutes. On the train home I manged to edit the photos together to send off to 3d images while frantically trying to tune out the pompous salesman who was holding forth to his female companions. (I may have lost filling grinding my teeth). I just have to wait now and see what comes out the other end. I’ve kind of realised this whole exercise has turned into a sort of Alex Pearl vs. Hogarth and Handel thing ;P