Stephen Mangan launches a new search for a star portrait artist, alongside returning judges, artist Tai Shan Schierenberg, independent curator Kathleen Soriano and art historian Kate Bryan.

She’s totally irreplaceable. How would you explain Portrait Artist of the Year to someone who’s never watched it before? We watch paintings come to life. We watch them from the very beginning ...

This self-portrait is perhaps ... and gained headway as a professional artist. The war had interrupted her life and career. By 1947, the year after this painting was completed, she had held ...