“I’m buggered. My energy has just gone. I stopped when the communication finishes and the communication finished.”
Peter is now sitting next to me in the control room as we watch the last few minutes of Sportstalk.
“Hey that looks pretty good.” Peter sounds amazed but for Roanna and I who have watched this painting come to life well, we’re not amazed at all.
“For me, who sits here every week watching these boys, you’ve got them exactly!” says Roanna. “The body language… Glenn slouching in his chair, Doro very upright and Ken leaning in at the table… this is what I see every week.”
“There’s no time for me to get all the proportions right and I know there are little glitches but it’s about getting the message across and what you said Roanna… that was the message.” Says Peter. He sighs loudly and sits back. “I won’t be able to do a second one… I’m done.”
Well we’re happy with the painting you’ve done Peter – Awesome work!
Glenn has just said on radio: “The biggest surprise for me this season is how good I look on canvas.”
A statement which has Roanna and I rolling on the floor!
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Portrait artist Peter Kendall is spending his Artopia residency getting a fly-on-the-wall look at the ABC - turning his experiences at the East Perth studios into a sketch book and blog of ABC staff going about their daily tasks.
Peter Kendall is a full time professional artist living in South Perth and well known for his portrait and abstract painting and children's books.
I will also add the irony of the ‘artist becoming the subject’ as I spent about 15 minutes filming Peter hard at work on the later stages of the painting. Both Sarah and I have filmed the process and hopefully the ABC will broadcast some of it at a later date. Having been previously sketched by Peter doing my job, it was an unusual turn of events to be doing that job filming Peter do his. Well done Peter on a wonderful work.