Miriam Escofet
About: Winner of the BP Portrait Award 2018, the unifying message in all of Miriam’s paintings is a sense of space, volume, atmosphere and detail, arriving at a hyper real expression of the subject matter. In 2019, the Queen sat for her portrait by Miriam.
Being part of the CBPP: “I am a very recent member and this will be my first time exhibiting with them and getting to know the fellow members. Creating an artist’s collective, free to set their own agenda and organise themselves in any way they wish, is a great initiative. I am very happy to be in their company and eager to see how it all develops.” On portraits: “Ultimately all portraits are a process of self-examination, for the artist and the viewer. Painting a portrait is an incredibly intimate process, even when the sitter is mostly absent. The hours, weeks, months, spent minutely studying every aspect of someone’s physiognomy, the way they sit or stand, the way they hold themselves, the tension or lack of it in the pose, build up to a very personal and intimate understanding of someone’s essence.”