To honour frontline workers, artists are painting their portraits

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Barbara Hoogeweegen, who has painted seven portraits so far, declares that this is the “most rewarding art” that she has ever done

A WOMAN SITS hunched in a bath, exhausted, crying into her hands. A man in blue scrubs and a face-mask presses the palm of his hand against a window; on the other side of the glass, two young girls and a boy raise their hands to meet his. A hospital sister sits up tall, radiating competence and calm.

The first painting is of Georgina Keoh, a doctor working in acute care at St George’s Hospital in London. As well as working under extreme pressure during the early days of the crisis, she was obliged to self-isolate. In the evenings, in a hot bath, she could let the emotions of the day flow out and perhaps find some solace. “I just cried when I got her images,” says, the artist who painted Dr Keoh’s portrait from photographs.

 

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