Michael Taylor Black & White Punch magazine was still a

Punch magazine was still a part of life when I was growing up

There is so much life in this painting

mainly working in watercolour

I asked him to sign my copy

This show had a huge impact on me as it brought together many of the best young portrait painters working at that time and Brendan was one of them

Michael Taylor Black & White Punch magazine was still a"I love the writing of PD James and the music of Sir John Tavener, and Michael has painted portraits of both. His work, though beautiful, is unsettling and often uncomfortable. When I visited him, we took a very rainy and suitably melancholic ramble to see where Thomas Hardys heart is buried."