Overall Winner: Painting in a different world now (My Father The Artist)

Bust-length portrait of a man with a short beard, blond dreadlocks and wearing a dark woolen hat — © Della Cowper Gray

Overall winner

Della Cowper-Gray (age 14)

Painting in a different world now (My Father The Artist), 2021

Coloured pencil and pastel on paper

Della says: ‘This is a portrait of my father the artist, observing the world around him. It is a different world now since Covid 19 and artists have been greatly affected. I wanted to convey that struggle through his expression. The world has changed and so too has the world of the artist.’

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