Harrison Ford

Painted in August 2011

Acrylic on canvas - 30 inch x 24 inch

Sold to a client in Singapore

Autographed by Harrison on 11th August 2011

In the summer of 2011, I was contacted by a national TV company in Germany called RTL, who had seen my artwork on the internet and asked if they could make a short film about me for one of their entertainment shows. They said they would like to film my process of painting a portrait and travelling to a film premiere and asking the actor to autograph it. I was delighted to, and mentioned there was a forthcoming premiere at the O2 arena in London of ‘Cowboys and Aliens’ featuring Harrison Ford and Daniel Craig, and perhaps I could paint both of them and see if I could get both signed. RTL asked me keep a video diary of painting them and they would send their London based crew to film me at the premiere.

Each portrait involved over 30 hours of highly concentrated work, studying photographs and building up the detail carefully, but I finished both in time for the premiere.

The day of the premiere arrived, which ironically was also my birthday. I left home at 5am and dove for 3 hours to East London. The RTL crew greeted me and reserved a privileged position for me in the media area.

When Harrison Ford arrived he didn’t sign many autographs, some other fans there said he was generally quite a shy person in public, but fortunately he came straight over to me to sign my portrait. He gave a wonderful surprised reaction, I asked him if he liked it and he replied “Yes it’s very good!”

RTL filmed the signing and compiled a wonderful film about me which was broadcast on national TV in Germany, Austria and Switzerland. Certainly a birthday to remember!

Below is the RTL film from Germany about me.

Below is my video diary of painting the portrait and at the end of the film is meeting Harrison Ford and him signing the portrait…