As part of the exhibition Portraits (Part 1) at my wonderful studio Artists Workhouse, I painted a new self portrait to display alongside a similar painting I had finished in early 2016 - now being shown as a duo of portraits that show the difference in my state of mind and self-confidence over a year. I took the opportunity to record the progress of my own work and took photographs at regular intervals over several weeks, capturing the different stages of how the painting ca