Portrait Artist of the Year, Cardiff, S01 E04, Reel Truth Documentaries

The final heat takes Joan Bakewell and Frank Skinner to Wales where artists paint a topless Gavin Henson, Lucian Freud s muse Sue Tilley and war veteran Simon Weston. Portrait Artist of the Year is a competition art show aiming to find the best portrait painter of the year. Each episode features a regional competition and contestants are challenged to produce a portrait of one of three famous sitters. As the competition goes on, three artists will remain, and these finalists will have their work displayed in the worldfamous National Portrait Gallery in London. The winner eventually receives a 10, 000 commission to become a permanent part of the British Library Subscribe here for more full length documentaries: Welcome to Reel Truth the home of amazing documentaries Here you will find full episode documentaries and documentary series, covering true crime, medical, science and more.