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The 2024 Discerning Eye Founder’s Prize went to Felicity Gill for Fluorescent Pink, selected by Gabrielle Blackman.

Felicity Gill’s portrait captures a unique tenderness in her sitter. It combines a blurred, contemplative figure with an undulating fluorescent line of pink paint, leading the viewer’s eyes to loop around the work’s surface. A figurative and portrait artist based in Kent, Gill’s painterly work has received critical acclaim due to her exceptional artistic talent and arresting visual style. Luxurious Magazine

Affordable Art Fair 2023: Felicity Gill chosen as ‘One to Watch’ by Fair Director Hugo Barclay

Already a hugely talented and successful portrait artist, it feels as if Felicity Gill is on the cusp of a major breakthrough in her painting career. Her portfolio includes fresh depictions of the likes of Joan Bakewell and Boris Johnson.’’
Steve Pill, Editor, Artist and Illustrators magazine

"It was a privilege and a glorified ego massage!" 
Boris Johnson, Prime Minister, on being painted by Felicity Gill.

"It captures the man's quizzical expression exactly... she has done him proud." 
Lucy Hodges, THE INDEPENDENT on Boris Johnson

"We're starting to see a lot of younger artists and they really are bringing in new, edgier work'' said Leiper``People like to see how other people perceive them. '' Highlighting the move toward less conventional portraits, Leiper said, is the Johnson piece, which portrays the mayor seated in a deck chair holding a coffee cup, an image she described as "angelic.''
Lyndsey Leiper for Bloomberg.com

Rosa Magazine 2024

Artists and Illustrators magazine Features 2019, 2013

RA Magazine 2013

Feature in Art of England Magazine 2007

Featured on Star Portraits BBC1, 2007

Hello! Magazine 2007