Jason Carlisle
Jason loved art at school. Like many of us, he wasn’t able to pursue his passion for practical reasons, but the change came in 2009 when he moved from shift work to a regular eight-to-five job, which meant his evenings were suddenly free. In the same week, he came across a selfportrait by Lucian Freud in a Sunday newspaper.
‘The portrait blew me away,’ he remembers of a seminal moment in his life. ‘I wondered if I could achieve something like that. It was the challenge that caught me.’