Exhibitor

Oil on canvas
1020 x 760 mm

Tom Dewhurst studied at Liverpool Art College and the Royal College of Art. His work has been included several times in the exhibitions for the Jerwood Drawing Prize, the Hunting Art Prize and the BP Portrait Award (1981, 1982, 1984, 1985, 1989, 2008).

The portrait shows Dewhurst's son, Laurie, helping in the family garden. Dewhurst was interested in making the comparison between his adult son and the now rather dilapidated shed in which he used to play when a child.