My first TV interview

Greetings all. Back in April I was contacted by RTS (Swiss national tv), who needed a contemporary portrait painter to do a demo and an interview on the occasion of the Angelica Kauffman exhibition at the Royal Academy. Here is a link to said interview: I appear about 1min 30 secs in.

https://www.rts.ch/info/culture/arts-visuels/2024/article/la-peintre-grisonne-angelica-kauffmann-exposee-a-la-royal-academy-of-arts-de-londres-28462678.html

Angelica Kauffman, (whose mother was Swiss), was one of the founding members of the Royal Academy. She was a very talented painter, and is perhaps not as well known as she ought to be. The exhibition at the RA is on until Sunday this week, 30 June. I do urge you to see it if you have the opportunity.

Here are a few of my favourite Angelica Kauffman images (though the photographs really don’t do her justice). Although she’s officially classed as a neoclassical painter, she loved Rembrandt and Titian, and you can see that in her work. I particularly like her very candid self-portraits, but she was also great at painting other people, like her friend Sir Joshua Reynolds (see below).

Lastly, if you’d like to discuss sitting for a portrait, don’t hesitate to contact me.

Once again, I’m taking part in Richmond Open studios, which means I’m opening my house up to the public. You are all very warmly invited.
Details as follows:

15th & 16th June 2024
11am – 5pm
49 Lonsdale Road
London SW13 9JR

Please RSVP to paul@paulwuensche.com.

I have lots of new work: including paintings of Barnes/Hammersmith/the river, still life, and of course, Venice. Everything is for sale, and smaller works are quite affordable. Do come along with friends and family. Children and dogs also welcome.