Portrait Artist of the Week is a companion programme to Portrait Artist of the Year shown on Sky Arts. Each week a celebrity sitter is painted via video link in their own home and thousands of people paint along and post their portraits on Instagram with the hashtag #mypaotw. I discovered the programme halfway through the last series towards the end of 2020 and found it highly informative and enjoyable to participate in. My painting of Floella Benjamin was featured in one of the episodes as part of the opening montage and my painting of Russell Tovey was picked out by Sky TV’s Instagram account as one of their favourites.
