Every year I try to see the final cut for the National Portrait Gallery's award. Find out more here.
On this occasion, I visited with a friend and discovered that we liked a lot of the same paintings, which is interesting because none of our favourites won a prize, these having been awarded pieces that we'd given less than a few seconds of our time. I'm not a fan of photo-realistic art; there are cameras for that!
One thing I did find interesting – many the subjects in this year's paintings are wearing stripey things:
