Title/Subject: Admiral Michael Harris
Date: 2001
Medium: Oil
Description/Notes:
Rear Admiral Michael G.T. Harris was a Royal Navy officer who was the captain of HMS Cardiff during the Falklands War. He was promoted lieutenant on 1 May 1963, lieutenant-commander on 1 May 1971, and retired on 3 April 1992. [Source: Wikipedia]

Commissioned by the Clothworkers’ Company.

Title/Subject: The Right Honorable The Lord St John of Fawsley, PC, FRSL
Date: 1996
Medium: Oil
Exhibited: Royal Society of Portrait Painters • Not exhibited
Description/Notes:
Norman Anthony Francis St John-Stevas, Baron St John of Fawsley, PC, FRSL (born 18 May 1929), is a British Conservative politician, author, constitutional expert and barrister. His surname was compounded from his father’s (Stevas) and mother’s (St John-O’Connor) surnames.

Title/Subject: Jimmy Shand Esq, MBE
Date: 1995
Medium: Oil
Exhibited: 1996: Royal Society of Portrait Painters
Description/Notes:
Sir James Shand MBE (January 28 1908 — December 23 2000) was a Scottish musician who played traditional Scottish dance music on the accordion. [Source: Wikipedia]

Described as the “Grand old man of Scottish dance music” and “The famously diffident accordion maestro”, Jimmy Shand was awarded the M.B.E. A trust fund initiated and set up by the earl of Elgin and Kincardine which received worldwide support has paid for the portrait to honour one of Scotland’s greatest musicians. This painting is now part of the Scottish national collection and we are most grateful for the loan by the Trustees of the National Portrait Gallery of Scotland.
[Source: RSPP Catalogue 1996]

Title/Subject: John Pendower Esq., Dean, Charing Cross & Westminster Medical School, 1989-1993
Date: 1995
Medium: Oil
Exhibited: 1995: Royal Society of Portrait Painters
Description/Notes:

This is a relaxed, comfortable portrait of a highly distinguished medical man. He seems at peace with the world and enjoys being painted. The way the eye is led to the dangling spectacles, which in his relaxation he looks as if he might drop, is masterful. In fact the triangular relation between the two hands and the head forms a perfect structure to complement the softness of the academic dress. The rich red and orange convey the warmth of the occasion, and of the sitter.
[From RSPP Catalogue 1995]

Title/Subject: The Pink Dress – Homage to Pellegrini, 1994
Date: 1994
Medium: Oil
Exhibited: Royal Society of Portrait Painters • 1994
Description/Notes:

Title/Subject: The Rt Revd David Edward Jenkins, DD, Lord Bishop of Durham, 1984-1994
Date: 1994
Medium: Oil
Exhibited: 1994: Royal Society of Portrait Painters
Description/Notes:

There is an elegance to George Bruce’s paintings, a sense of measured understatement. In this portrait, the Rt Revd. David Jenkins sits in the robes worn by the Bishops of Durham at the coronation of monarchs, holding the Bible he was given at the time he was ordained. In the lower left hand corner stands a miner’s lamp, given to him in thanks for the support he offered during the strike.
The artist found the Bishop very different to the figure portrayed in the press, a profoundly spiritual man with a unique turn of phrase. At one salient point in the portrait, as the likeness was coming together, the Bishop’s only comment was ‘Whoopee for now’.
The rhythm created by the Bishop’s robes moves across the canvas in one long and sinuous movement like the flame of a candle. Yellows and golds are underscored by deep blue, highlighting the shimmering whites of the hair and rochet. When the portrait was completed, the Bishop commented that he wasn’t given to outbursts of exuberance but the painting has turned out as he hoped’.
(From the RSPP 1994 Catalogue)

Title/Subject: Mrs Charles Dent
Date: 1992
Medium: Oil (see additional images of work in progress & sketches)
Dimensions: 90″ x 50″
Exhibited: 1992: Royal Society of Portrait Painters
Description/Notes:
Commission to paint Mrs. Charles Dent (aka. Annie)