Portrait Artist of the Year: Eddie Izzard. While Stephen Mangan hosts a brand new series of Portrait Artist of the Year on Wednesdays from 14 th October, co-presenter Joan Bakewell is live each following Sunday from 18 … Episode 1 will air from 8 – 9 pm and will see the aspiring artists compete for the title of Portrait Artist of the Year 2020.. Sitting in as the artists’ subjects and having their portraits painted in 2020 are 24 celebrities. It will be a live interactive show streamed on Sky TV's Facebook page on Sundays from 10am - 2pm, from Sunday 26th April. Joan Bakewell presents Portrait Artist of the Week, a Lockdown version of Sky Arts' hugely successful series, Portrait Artist of the Year. She is also an author and playwright and has been awarded Humanist of the year for services to humanism. Portrait Artist of the Year 2020: Start date. A new series of Portrait Artist of the Year kicks off from Tuesday, January, 21st on Sky Arts.. Find out when Celebrity Portrait Artist of the Year is on TV, including Series 2018-18/12/2018. Joan Dawson Bakewell, Baroness Bakewell, DBE, HonFBA, FRSA (née Rowlands; born 16 April 1933), is an English journalist, television presenter and Labour Party peer.Baroness Bakewell is President of Birkbeck, University of London; she is also an author and playwright, and has been awarded Humanist of the year for services to humanism. Artist of the Year is a television competition shown on the Sky Arts channel (formerly known as Artsworld and Sky Arts 1) which aims to find the best portrait/landscape painter every year.. Frank Skinner We’re back this autumn with a double dose of portrait magic! Through several rounds of regional competitions in different parts of the UK professional and amateur artists are challenged to produce a portrait/landscape of one of three famous sitters. Portrait Artist of the Year is hosted by UK TV personalities Joan Bakewell and Frank Skinner; an esteemed group of judges travel across the Europe in search of a new star in the art world. The show is set to make a triumphant return next month with Stephen Mangan returning to his hosting duties alongside Joan Bakewell, who will present the sister series, Portrait Artist of … Find out when Portrait Artist of the Year 2020: Asa Butterfield, Micky Flanagan, Anjli Mohindra is on TV. Portrait Artist of the Year: David Haig, Jordan Stephens and Jane Horrocks. I remember that terrible portrait of Elaine Paige last year’s winner did. Baroness Bakewell is President of Birkbeck, University of London. And that time when Joan Bakewell had to pointedly remind the judges that the show was called Portrait Artist of the Year. A highlights show will also be… Portrait Artist of the Year is hosted by UK TV personalities Joan Bakewell and Frank Skinner; an esteemed group of judges travel across the Europe in search of a new star in the art world.Each episode features a regional competition where artists are shortlisted and challenged to produce a portrait of one of three famous sitters. I thought that the portrait that The Vivienne chose was great, and the black and white drawing of Mirren Mack. While Stephen Mangan hosts a brand new series of Portrait Artist of the Year on Wednesdays from 14 th October, co-presenter Joan Bakewell is live each following Sunday from 18 th October with a sister series of Portrait Artist of the Week. Joan Bakewell; Joan Dawson Bakewell, Baroness Bakewell, DBE (née Rowlands; born 16 April 1933) is an English journalist, television presenter and Labour Party Peer.