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About creative self-expression, through writing, drawing and performance. ADEQUATE, because I can't do perfect.The presenter is John-Paul Flintoff (me, the chap typing this sentence), the author of books published in 16 languages.
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Multitudes across a life (opens the original)
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A therapist once told me about the Integrated Self - a vast room of chairs for every version of a person - and warned that you can never assemble the whole. The idea has kept coming back. It surfaced in an improvisation scene with Keith Johnstone, where Steve Chapman played me at sixteen and asked what lay ahead. It surfaced again in psychiatric hospital, where I made hundreds of pictures of myself trying to work out what was happening. And it turned into a way of drawing other people beside the
How a reporter's notebook gave way to a sketch pad: the arc behind this show (opens the original)
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The story behind Contain Multitudes, my portrait show at Burgh House, Hampstead, 18-23 August 2026. It begins with a drawing exercise at The School of Life, then a commission from a priest in Hampstead, then Zoom portraits during lockdown (including Olivia Colman), then a run of visits to independent publishers, lawyers, teachers and writers in the rooms where they work. In January 2024 I drew The Times’s obituary page for Camila Batmanghelidjh. That felt like a hinge - the journalist and the po
The jumper she knitted herself – Mary Ann Sieghart, journalist and author (opens the original)
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Portrait of Mary Ann Sieghart, journalist, broadcaster and author of The Authority Gap, in her Wiltshire office, from Contain Multitudes at Burgh House. The pictures in the show come from a run of visits I’ve made over the past few years to people in the places where they work: writers at their desks, lawyers in their offices, publishers among the books they’ve made, a priest in the room where she thinks. Some of the sitters are old friends. Some I met for the first time on the day.
A book of liturgies - Ayla Lepine, priest and art historian, caught reading (opens the original)
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Portrait of Revd Dr Ayla Lepine, priest and art historian at St James's Piccadilly, from Contain Multitudes at Burgh House, London, by John-Paul Flintoff. The pictures in the show come from a run of visits I’ve made over the past few years to people in the places where they work: writers at their desks, lawyers in their offices, publishers among the books they’ve made, a priest in the room where she thinks. Some of the sitters are old friends. Some I met for the first time on the day.
The man who talks to everyone (opens the original)
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Patrick McCann, days from retiring at Linklaters, drawn three times in an emptying office. Then he took another job. From Contain Multitudes, a series of portraits I'm showing in a gallery in Hampstead. The pictures in the show come from a run of visits I’ve made over the past few years to people in the places where they work: writers at their desks, lawyers in their offices, publishers among the books they’ve made, a priest in the room where she thinks. Some of the sitters are old friends. Some
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