Phil Hale Gold Silver & Bronze looking out of the window

looking out of the window and seeing faces of passengers

Dated 1882

This is an earlyish work for Radford and quite different from his current output

I hadn’t realised before researching this painting of Capri that the island was known as such a bohemian colony of artists and writers

Phil Hale Gold Silver & Bronze looking out of the window"I first saw Phils work in the early 1990s, while on a trip to New York. His paintings were visceral, terrifying and beautiful. I wrote to him. He invited me to his studio in Spitalfields, London. To actually see his work and to ask him about his practice was like a light being switched on. I was still working in comics but felt drawn to expand into portraiture. I wanted work with more longevity and gravity and Phil was exactly the right person at the