Greg KapkaFine Art

Becca’s Earrings - oil on panel, 6in x 8in © 2015 ——————— I guess more words and things should probably go here to describe what this picture is, of whom it is and why the thing exists in the very first place. Email for availability. ———————  Detail: ———————

The Depressed Person - oil on panel, 365mm x 215mm © 2014 ——————— With paraphrasis of The Depressed Person, a short story collected in the ever trenchant David Foster Wallace‘s book Brief Interviews With Hideous Men.  Email me for availability. ———————  Dymo Study (more info): ——————— Colour Study (more info): ———————

Fraser - oil on panel, 200mm x 150mm © 2014 ——————— Another study, this time on dibond, mainly for a chance to mess around with painting hair. And to practise layering. And stubble, and other things of that nature. As ever, click images to embiggen Email for enquiries/availability. ——————— Process: ——————— Detail: ——————— Timelapse: Portraiting. Info: kapka.co.uk/fraser/ […]

Aiden (Colour Study) – oil on panel, 200mm x 150mm © 2013 ——————— A portrait idea I’d had & wanted to do for sometime was made possible by my friend offering to pose and the weather – at just the right time – being dreadful. What resulted was some really grey, washed out colours that had […]

Heterochrome (Fraser & His Self Portrait) – oil on panel, 230mm x 280mm © 2012 —————— Brag: When this picture was accepted into the 2013 BP Portrait Award, I was asked to write a couple of paragraphs about it for the powers that be to paraphrase it for the little info plaque that sits alongside the […]

So at work one day a drawing was brought in for framing which reeked of a quality rarely seen in my not-exactly-London city. It turned out to be a drawing by Travis Seymour and was exquisitely rendered in that unmistakeable atelier way. The person bringing it in for framing turned out to be the equally […]

Miniature (Study) – oil on dibond, 40mm x 40mm © 2012 ——————— Practising my miniature painting chops, and using dibond for the first time. The surface is amazingly smooth but I don’t know about the long term adherence of primers to it yet. As ever, click images to embiggen. Email me for availability. ——————— Framed:  ——————— […]

Joseph Ruston – oil, approx. 30mm tall (detail from a much larger painting) —————— This portrait of Joseph Ruston is a detail from a much larger Project: Cathedral painting, exhibited earlier this year in Lincoln Cathedral. His links to Lincolnshire are many but the more obscure  one which prompted his inclusion in one of my paintings is […]

After All One Never Knew Now Did One – oil on panel, 260mm x 560mm © 2012 —————— This year’s B.P. Portrait Award rigmarole took a back seat to Project Cathedral procrastination, and so passed by largely unnoticed. Except for the hole-in-the-wallet side effects the award induces – what with the entry fees climbing each year, […]