Born to artist parents, Alan and Elizabeth Sorrell, we visit with #RichardSorrell (b. 1948). Sorrell studied at the Walthamstow Art School and the Kingston College of Art. Sorrell works in oils, acrylics, and watercolours. Sorrells’ paintings display figures in action, doing regular everyday things. But these images look somewhat awkward and rough, but it is just this clumsiness that draws one into the image portrayed.

Sorrell invents his paintings, drawing upon memories of ordinary people doing ordinary things to create compositions, which are about people and their interactions. These ordinary goings on, give the viewer an entrance point into the artwork, a recollection from an event or person from their own lives.

This entrance into the artwork puts the viewer in touch with their own feelings and memories. It makes the artwork approachable, more intimate, and personal.

This piece is signed and dated but untitled. For me, when I look at this work, the title that comes to me is ‘The Last Dance and the Wallflower‘. So that is what I will call it. A piece that draws one in and asks a respose from the viewer.