Painting a Pilgrimage: The Romería Series
In May of 2018, painters Michael Alford and Marcus Hodge traveled to Andalusia to draw inspiration from Spain’s largest religious festival, the Romería del Rocío. Here Alford talks about the way this adventure inspired his ambitious suite of paintings, The Romería Series.
A Woodland Mural for a Dining Room
Michael Alford discusses the process of planning and making a bespoke dining room mural for a special family home in London.
Collaborations: Michael Alford on Painting the Nude
The attraction to painting nudes is that it’s so difficult to get it right. You need correct draughtsmanship, colour, tone. You have to understand anatomy, even though you’re not really painting it. You start with a real person. You want to capture the specificity of...