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Charlotte Lee’s, portrait of Richard Harris (Click to Enlarge)
AN artist from Tralee has shrugged of national and international competition to win the first ever Richard Harris International Film Festival Portrait Competition.
The portrait by Charlotte Lee from Lahern, took four weeks to complete and features pixelated features of Richard Harris rugged face to signify the late Limerick man’s on and off screen personas.
“I decided to put in the pixels, to make it something different so it wouldn’t be your standard portrait,” said Charlotte Lee talking to us on Friday.
The pencil drawing will now feature as the official logo for the 2016 Richard Harris International Film Festival.
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The prize can as a huge shock to Charlotte who thought she was not going to win told family and friends not to come to the awards ceremony.
“They had told us if we had won, we would have been informed of it a week beforehand,” she said.
“I got no word I had won, so I told family and friends not to bother, because I thought I was not going to win!” she said.
Charlotte Lee, with the award for Richard Harris International Film Film Festival Portrait Competition.
Charlotte is no stranger to the limelight having featured on the very popular, Sky Arts, programme ‘Portrait Artist of the Year’ this year, which she describes as “‘The Great British Bake Off’, but with paint”.
“Doing it (‘Portrait Artist of the Year’) was savage. It opened huge doors for me. The two competitions are polar opposites because such a short amount of time to complete the work on Portrait Artist of the Year,” she said.
Charlotte is a former student at Gaelcholaiste Chiarraí and Brookfield College. In 2013 she graduated from the Limerick School of Art and Design with a degree in Fine Art Printing and Contemporary Practice.
Since February, Charlotte, who lives in Limerick has been concentrating on a tattoo artist apprenticeship.
For any interested buyers of her work, she plans to put the portrait of Richard Harris up for sale sometime in the new year.
