Hannah Ostapjuk Portrait Artist UK & the Portraits for NHS Heroes Project It was important to me as a Yorkshire Artist that I represented this beautiful region and painted a portrait of a NHS Hero who worked or lived in Yorkshire. Portrait Artist Hannah Ostapjuk: Oil Painting – NHS Hero Blubell New portrait painting ‘Bluebell’, […]
Portrait Artist Yorkshire, a much needed up-date by Hannah Ostapjuk Artist and Portrait Painter. Life and work has been busy and I guess updating my news articles was the last thing on my mind. However in the current Covid-19 lockdown, I found the time to have a nice Yorkshire Tea and write this. On my […]
I had the pleasure of painting a wonderful portrait of North Yorkshire’s previous Vice Lord Lieutenant, Colonel Edward Christopher York. Colonel Edward York held the appointment of Vice Lord Lieutenant of North Yorkshire from January 2000 to February 2014. In 2015 Edward was honoured with an OBE for services to charity. Edward and his wife, Sarah, play a huge […]
Firstly, I cannot believe I haven’t written a post since September 2017! Secondly, I did indeed study at The Florence Academy of Art in Florence for a whole wonderful week. Firenze is stunning, the centre of Italian Renaissance from 14th to 16th centuries. A place I had to visit and a place I feel so lucky to […]
Back in August 2015. My work with Spartans Academy of Krav Maga. Official Photographer at a very special event with the one and only Itay Gil. Since 2015 I have worked with the Academy at two more Itay Gil events: April 10th 2016, I photographed a first, the first ‘Active Shooter’ Krav Maga Self Defence […]
Today (31/07/17), I received the fantastic news that Professor Susan Price has now seen the portrait I painted of her. It is exactly 11 months, since I delivered the Portrait of Professor Susan Price to Leeds Beckett University. There will not be a formal unveiling. The portrait will be hung in the Boardroom at the […]
Thought is was about time I gave you all an update on what this artist and portrait painter is up to! On my Easel… Right now I have a commission for a gentleman who lives in Rotherham. The portrait painting is of his late wife whom I was lucky enough to have met a couple of […]
Here it is! The follow on article from Painting Lessons and your first chance, unless you follow me on Facebook, to see Aleksandra’s completed oil painting. This young artist has done so well! Our second lesson of 2016, described in my previous post, “We have now moved on to adding the final details to the portrait, Aleksandra […]
When I first met Claudia back in 2014 her confidence, within drawing and art, had taken a bit of a knock, she had the skills, the vision and the ideas, just not the self belief. I spent a few short hours with Claudia, going through her Art Portfolio and listening to her ideas – I […]