On Friday of 2nd Week, 8th May, the College will be delighted to welcome figurative painter Jonathan Chan. Jonathan would like to meet as many members of the College community as possible as part of a project to commission new portraits so that our collection better represents the whole College community as it now is.
Open call session
Please drop in to the Shulman Auditorium foyer any time between 1pm and 3pm on the 8th to meet him and find out more about his work.
In particular, the open call is an opportunity for Jonathan to learn more about the College and its history, its traditions, its values, and how these are interpreted and felt by today’s staff, students, and Fellows.
Jonathan’s work is firmly rooted in the figurative tradition of exploring light and form through rigorous observation and drawing, together with an entirely contemporary freedom in his use of colour and application of paint. Jonathan says, “I love the process of portraiture, from the close engagement with the sitter to the act of painting itself, and above all seeing the person – not just a likeness but a character – appearing on the canvas. It never loses its magic”.
Jonathan is a member of the Contemporary British Portrait Painters; his work is in several private collections and can be seen in London this May at the Royal Society of Portrait Painters exhibition at the Mall Galleries and at ‘Forty’, a solo exhibition at Burgh House.
