I'd found a number of portraits that depict their black subjects as real people, not caricatures ... step into Smith’s painting, I emerged thinking about the stack of family history records ...

Through Portrait of Black Britain, he hopes to both amplify the contributions made by Black people living in the UK and make them more visible, plus also give the next generation and wider society a ...

An artist says he has faced racism within the art world and has struggled to find galleries willing to display his portraits of black people. However, classically-trained Nahem Shoa said museums ...