Meet the Artist

Meet the Artist is a unique opportunity to connect with practising artists who are associated with the National Portrait Gallery through exhibitions, commissions or other links. Students and teachers are given free access to the artist through an exclusive presentation of their work, and the opportunity to enter into a conversation about the content, process and approach to the art work and their collaboration with the National Portrait Gallery.

Derek Walcott ('The Sun Poet')
by Ross Wilson
1997
NPG 6400

Ross Wilson is one of Northern Ireland's leading artists who’s many portrait commissions have included Nobel Laureates Derek Walcott and Seamus Heaney, and the playwright Arthur Miller. His artwork is displayed across the world among several public and private collections.

Wilson’s portrait entitled The Sun Poet currently on display at the National Portrait Gallery, is of the Caribbean playwright, poet and theatre director Derek Walcott and was painted from sittings in St Lucia.

Bring your Secondary and Sixth Form students to meet the artist, learn about their artistic practice and discuss their work.  To book a place on a Meet the Artist session please call 020 7312 2483.

Watch this space for more details on the 2011 - 2012 Meet the Artist programme.

Past Meet the Artist sessions