Bye Bye Boris? About art and Boris Johnson

I’ve been completely distracted today by the machinations concerning the future of Boris Johnson. 

It’s looking very much like he’ll be gone for definite after the 1922 Committee elections next week (i.e. rule change and new confidence vote – which he will lose) – and maybe by the end of today (i.e. 35 resignations from the payroll vote so far and likely to continue)

So here’s a review of my posts about art and Boris Johnson

Portraits of Boris

This is a portrait I wrote about in Portrait completed in 2 hours wins Ondaatje Prize.

As ever I was interested in what John Ward CBE, 90 this year, was exhibiting by way of pastels on mid-toned Ingres paper. His works were displayed alongside an absolutely splendid portrait of Boris Johnson MP by Felicity Gill (which looks rather better in reality than it does on her website) . Despite Boris describing the experience as a privilege and “glorious ego massage”, Ms Gill describes how it was quite difficult trying to pin him down at his offices at The Spectator.

“The sitting was constantly interrupted….eventually I resorted to getting him to climb out of a window onto a small roof where he sat, captive, in an old deckchair”

Here’s the portrait by Felicity Gill…….

It includes portraits of Boris as a child and growing up.