Sophie Ploeg

On Friday 27 March I’ll be doing a lunch time talk at the Scottish National Portrait Gallery about my project  The Lace Trail . The talk is about an hour, free,  and I hope to see you there! Dutch artist, art historian and BP Travel Award winner Sophie Ploeg takes you into the lavish world of early 17th century Dutch and English portraiture. These portraits and the development of lace and ruffs as a fashion accessory has inspired her to create a series of new paintings which are currently on display within the BP Portrait Award 2014 exhibition. Within this talk she will discuss early 17th century portraiture, the development of 17th century lace and how she got inspired to create the costumes for her paintings. She will share studio images of the works in progress and explain her working method. Scottish National Portrait Gallery Friday 27 March 12.45 - 2pm Free (If you cannot make this talk there will be another one in Thornbury, South Gloucestershire on 23 April)

I have just come back from Edinburgh to attend the Private View of the BP Portrait Award 2014 at the Scottish National Portrait Gallery . The show looks absolutely amazing there, different, and I am really pleased with ‘my wall’. They managed to hang one extra painting compared to London, so now the painting ‘ The Long Wait ’ has also made it onto the walls! From the ten paintings I created there are 8 on show in Edinburgh. I made it to the newspaper, this is from The Scotsman of Friday 28 November: Here are some pictures of the show: My paintings for the Travel Award and Robert Neil’s work on the far wall. David Jon Kassan’s work in the middle Thomas Ganter’s winning painting at the far wall. The glorious central hall of the Portrait Gallery in Christmas mood BP Posters are up! More pictures here I have written a book about my project  The Lace Trail which you can preview and buy here For an organised list of ALL blog posts that I wrote ...