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Julio CĂ©sartist: visual artist

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Everyone has a story. Social photographer and artist Julio CĂ©sar Osorio can take six months to produce his highly coloured canvases. Here he talks about how he got into art mid-career. Interview by Nicola Baird If it wasn’t raining so much in early summer 2024 I’d have met Julio CĂ©sar…

Renske Mann: my life with artist Cyril Mann

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Everyone has a story. What’s it like to be an artist’s muse? Renske Mann reflects on life with the artist Cyril Mann – including their time at Bevin Court – in her new book. Review by Nicola Baird In 2014 Renske Mann contacted Islington Faces about a new people’s plaque…

Melissa Scott-Miller: artist

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Everybody has a story. Artist Melissa Scott-Miller paints her detailed canvases around the borough, so you may have spotted her at work in Islington. Or perhaps you recognise her Islington paintings when they star in the RA’s summer exhibitions? Interview with Nicola Baird Melissa Scott-Miller paints Islington scenes – houses, back…
Andy Parker: musician & painter

Andy Parker: musician & painter

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Everyone has a story. Is it strange to have been born in Covent Garden and become a landscape artist? Probably not if your major influence is Turner whose home was round the corner… just over 200 years earlier. Andy Parker, who’s lived in Islington since 1980, talks about early morning painting trips,…
Cyril Mann: painter & sculptor

Cyril Mann: painter & sculptor

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Everyone on Islington Faces Blog has a story.  Painter and sculptor Cyril Mann (1911-1980) battled for a much wider public recognition during his life. But now his name and sun-filled paintings are starting to become better known thanks to local people honouring him with an Islington People’s Plaque in his memory on a…
Robbie MacGregor: pavement & farm artist

Robbie MacGregor: pavement & farm artist

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Everyone on Islington Faces Blog has a story. Regulars to Islington’s Freightliners Farm or Camden’s Kentish Town City Farm may have been seen a big-bearded Billy Connolly look-alike whipping up swift pen portraits of the animals or even doing a caricature sketch for a bargain carboot price. If so, that’s Islington-resident Robbie MacGregor. Interview by Nicola Baird…

Teresa Robertson: unique house painter

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Everyone on Islington Faces Blog has a story. Illustrator Teresa Robertson, 53, moved to Islington when she was just eight months old.  She’s a trustee of the Islington Centre for Refugees and Migrants, runs occasional art workshops and is increasingly well-known for her colourful portraits of Islington families outside their…