TV series

Portrait Artist of the Year

2013 · 13 seasons

A calm, encouraging competition where you watch paint slowly become a face and root for quiet creative breakthroughs.

Overview: Artists from the UK and Ireland compete by creating portraits of famous people.
How it feels: Warm, earnest, light and tense. Measured and needs your attention.
About: Art, identity, ambition, work
Content: No violence, gore, sexual content or swearing.
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Tone: warmstrength 2 of 3
earneststrength 2 of 3
lightstrength 1 of 3
tensestrength 1 of 3
Pacing: measured, 2 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention: engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes: art
identity
ambition
work
friendship
Places: workplace
big city
Era: contemporary
Audience: family
Form: procedural
serialised
Content intensity: Gore none
Language none
Violence none
Sex none

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Genres: documentary
Starring: Joan Bakewell, Frank Skinner, Stephen Mangan, Kathleen Soriano, Tai Shan Schierenberg, Kate Bryan, Ncuti Gatwa, David Gandy
Length: 13 seasons, 130 episodes, 60 min each
Network: Sky Arts
Country: France, Ireland, United Kingdom, Singapore
Languages: English