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BP Young Artist Award: Jamie Routley for ‘Tony Lewis’

The Welshman’s portrait is of Tony Lewis who has a newspaper stand at Baron’s Court Tube Station and works in The Four Vintners wine shop. “I didn't set out to paint a triptych, but I found after each painting there was more to say. A past had been hinted at during the sittings for the first painting that I couldn't leave alone.Tony told me that for the first time in decades he'd found an

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BP Young Artist Award: Jamie Routley for ‘Tony Lewis’

The Welshman’s portrait is of Tony Lewis who has a newspaper stand at Baron’s Court Tube Station and works in The Four Vintners wine shop. “I didn't set out to paint a triptych, but I found after each painting there was more to say. A past had been hinted at during the sittings for the first painting that I couldn't leave alone.Tony told me that for the first time in decades he'd found an environment that was both stimulating an allowed for quiet reflection. So we continued... It was an intense and profound experience for both of us,” Routley said. less