VOTE FOR PAM 💛✂️💛 (should you be so inclined, no obligation whatsoever) You can vote for my portrait of Pam Hogg as Visitors Choice of the exhibition, only until the 5th October competitions.npg.org.uk/c/peoplespick.… I appear to be sternly commanding that you do so in the second photo

Open Studios As part of Open House Festival, Tannery Arts are holding an Open Studio event at our Winchester House building in Oval and I'm participating. This Saturday 13th September  12 - 6pm @tanneryarts Winchester House, Cranmer Road, London, SW9 6EJ.

This is your Pam Service Announcement - I was so pleased to learn that the National Portrait Gallery London produced postcards of a small selection of paintings currently on show in the Portrait Award exhibition, including mine.... And who doesn't need a little more Pam in their lives? 💛✂️💛

Happy #InternationalCatDay - here's Atomic Family, us being the atypical not 'nuclear family' - my painting of Me and The Missus which I made shortly after & in response to the passing of our beautiful, vicious, chronically overloved & dearly missed cat Krasner

Last night with Pam Hogg and my portrait of her at the National Portrait Gallery London for the award ceremony and private view of the Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer Portrait Award exhibition.

Me and The Missus are Lezzering Off to the National Portrait Gallery #herbertsmithfreehillskramerportraitaward

Happy Pride, All It still seems, at times, truly remarkable that my wife and I get to be open, be partnered, be broadly accepted and be free to generally lezzer about together as we please.

@ttrueman.bsky.social PORTRAIT OF DR PAM HOGG to be exhibited in the Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer award show at the NATIONAL PORTRAIT GALLERY, LONDON - show opens to the public one week today I'll share the painting with you properly once the exhibition is open I'm just teasing 💛✂️💛 @NPGLondon

Happy 80th Birthday DEBBIE HARRY here as NICKI BRAND in VIDEODROME which The Missus and I just saw Yet Again @BFI in their Moviedrome season Long live the new flesh! one of my wayward women of cinema - an ongoing series first shown at Marlborough Gallery London in 2023

I am Leonor Fini - Palazzo Reale - Milan The Missus and I had the great fortune of seeing this exhibition recently & we gladly discovered her in depth in this comprehensive, superbly curated and staged show - just extended to the end of July, so there's still time to catch it

STUDIO NEWSLETTER - NATIONAL PORTRAIT GALLERY - BOOK COVER & more mailchi.mp/b7a420f9a2c8...

Happy birthday #ChantalAkerman Last week we brought her some flowers & tended to her resting place a little at Père Lachaise

Happy Birthday to Melanie, my one and only honey 💘 Celebrating one year on from her cancer treatment 🩷 Us in Paris a few days ago at the Musée Jacquemart André seeing a stupendous Artemisia Gentileschi exhibition 💖

NEWS 💛✂️💛 My portrait of Dr Pam Hogg will be exhibited in the Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer Portrait Award show at the National Portrait Gallery, London It will be on display from the 10th July It was an honour and an immense pleasure to paint this incomparable woman.

Happy Birthday To Me (yesterday) - I had a splendid day painting and kicking around with my fibreglass friends and then I went home to my honey for some gay carousels 🎈

Every now and then someone comes up with an idea that revolutionizes the hotdog. Take da Vinci, for instance, when he put that frankfurter in the hand of God on the ceiling of the Sixteen Chapel

Jonna - cover - Ambition Monster by Jennifer Romolini I'm so glad to share that my painting Jonna graces the cover of the paperback of the superb memoir Ambition Monster by Jennifer Romolini @jennromolini.bsky.social which was published this week @atriabooks.bsky.social

Laughing While Conducting - Phone Oil on Linen 70 x 75 cm 2024 recent painting

In a curious turn up for the (text) books, Beauty Queen now appears in an English learning manual for use by high school students (15-16 years old) by Les Editions Hatier, a Paris-based textbook publisher. Title: Let's Meet Up - Anglais 2de Ed. June 2025 Print run: 23,000 copies

I discovered much to my surprise and pride that my portrait of Horse McDonald represents the Modern Portrait section of the National Galleries of Scotland 💜 HORSE McDONALD OIL ON LINEN 140 X 120 CM 2019 @horsemusic @NatGalleriesSco

Trophies Oil on Linen 80 x 90 cm 2014 Private collection

This makes me happy ❤️‍🔥

Such a pleasure to hear Cate Blanchett in conversation with Matthew Sweet introducing the London Soundtrack Festival screening of Tár at the Barbican (Yes we saw it yet again who's counting)

A day late but here's to #InternationalWomensDay2025. To the incredible music and art that they create, which provides me with joy and happiness every minute of the day. @theanchoress.bsky.social @katebrinkworth.bsky.social @roxanahalls.bsky.social @heatherhorton.bsky.social @toriamos.bsky.social

Dressing Room Oil on Linen 90 x 80 cm 2015 Private Collection Watching the film #TheLastShowgirl which incidentally I loved - reminded me of a few paintings of mine, including this, Dressing Room, from a decade ago

Dr Pam Hogg visiting the studio recently to make an examination...of my finished portrait of her.... To be revealed.... Wait and see....

Such contained, quiet devastation - stunning. #imstillhere

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Oh thank you @womensartbluesky.bsky.social 💗 Prints are now available of this painting roxanahalls.com/artwork/5333...

And now I'm hearing from people in the U.S. that we're also on @netflix.com over there!

U.S. FRIENDS - I've been alerted that BBC One's #ExtraordinaryPortraits including my Episode 1 featuring the creation of my portrait of Georgia and Melissa Laurie is now available to view on Amazon Prime in the U.S. www.amazon.com/Extraordinar... @amazonprime.bsky.social

Happy Anniversary to Us 19 years together / 11 years partnered with civility. I love her so. One year ago Melanie was just one day post chemo on our anniversary. Here we were in Berlin last summer, thankfully she was so much stronger. Me & The Missus, in sickness & in health.

Happy Valentine's Day 🩷🩷 KNOT 2015 Oil on Linen 77 x 77 cm Private Collection

Not long to go now

It's Chantal Akerman season @BFI at last!

A languid dislocating fever-dream with surrealist / Michael Borreman sequences - Daniel Craig superb, soaked in sweat & longing but Lesley Manville rolls the whole film into her palm & saunters away with it. Loved Luca Guadagnino's #QueerMovie

Spotlight Oil on Canvas 91 x 91 cm 2001 Private Collection happy birthday David Lynch

David Lynch. This is a hard farewell. He gave me so much which I needed, more than I can quantify. I genuinely have no idea who I'd be as an artist without him. How can it be that we're now in the post-Lynch world?

A Little Light Reading Oil on Linen 80 x 140 cm 2012 Signing a new print today having had a request via my website for this painting to be made available - it came out so beautifully thought I'd share it - roxanahalls.com/artwork/533381…

A message I just received over on Instagram about this painting: "I absolutely love this. There is an old Jersey (New Jersey) Girl saying that goes perfectly. “A Jersey girl can bury the body in The Pine Barrens and get back in time for cocktails 🍸 “

Lights off for 2024

One of my favorite living painters @roxanahalls.bsky.social has started posting on BlueSky. Dangerous Minds has a terrific interview with her dangerousminds.net/comments/exc...

Just in case your therapist tells you the flying monkeys aren’t real and won’t be coming to get you - here’s evidence of one in London

Kill Us Douglas

MERRY CHRISTMAS EVERYONE 🎄🍸❤️ will you be LAUGHING WHILE UNWRAPPING Oil on Linen 90 x 90 cm 2015 I wish you all a happy holiday x

THE WICKED WIZARD OF OZ - 2017 It occurred to me that this might not be a bad time to share this with you: a bespoke commissioned project, comprising a 16 interconnecting canvas re-interpretation of The Wizard of Oz - #Wicked #wizardofoz

I still get Christmas cards from my old art teacher and they make me well up

My ruby slippers, worth somewhat less than $28million bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…