Doreen Mantle There is a series of episodes of Portrait Artist of the Year on Sky TV that I was greatly absorbed and inspired with. I recorded all the episodes where they have well known celebrities sitting for the competing artists. In the forth episode one of the three people who sat for them was a well known actress - Doreen Mantle, an award winning actor from classical theatre to TV favourites since the 1960s - like Coronation Street and One foot in the grave. She is partially blind now and she brought a friend to help her throughout the day. She was asked if anyone had painted her before and she said no. Who would want to paint me? she said. Well I did! Although I was not there myself that did not stop me! This is my effort developed from stills taken from my TV screen. I didn't like the pink screen that they sat her in front of - that had a black stripe running disturbingly across her head in the background! So, I cave her a more fitting background.