Sky Portrait Artist of the Year is a TV competition in which artists paint portraits, judged by Kathleen Sorriano, Kate Bryan and Tai Shan Schierenberg. The programme is presented by Steven Mangan and Joan Bakewell and I applied to take part in 2019 for the 2020 edition, filmed at the Battersea Arts Centre. The artists come from all sorts of contexts; students, professional portrait painters, people who go to art classes, and simply artists.
Preparations