The aftermath

So you're probably all wondering what I'm doing now that the Threadneedle Figurative Prize exhibition is over.

Maybe you think I'm lying on a beach somewhere, cocktail in one hand, suncream in the other (wood burns too you know)...

Well you'd be wrong!

Instead I'm up to my elbows in detergent and am helping to clean up the Galleries before our Society of Wildlife Artists exhibition, which starts on Wednesday 24 September.

To prove it here I am with my (blue) marigolds on.

Ah well, no rest for the wicked...

And the winner is...

So the winner of the Threadneedle Figurative Prize has now officially been announced at a rather glamourous evening at the Mall Galleries. Nina Murdoch won the prize for her work, Untitled, and Tim Shaw won the Federation of British Artists Prize for his Tank on Fire. Many congratulations to them and to all of the artists for a fantastic show.

Being no stranger to glamour and glitz, I dutifully downed my champagne and schmoozed with Lauren Laverne and several fabulously attired arty types. It's a tough job, but somebody's got to do it!