Kevin McNicholas

I have been able to gain access to the highly technical but extremely secretive world of F1 motor racing by painting pictures of the cars for leading luminaries of the sport, including Frank Dernie, Nigel Mansell, Ron Dennis and Sir Frank Williams.
“I paint on canvas panels in a photo-realistic style using acrylic paint with traditional brushes. I don’t use an airbrush and wouldn’t know where to start with one. I don’t like to lose the texture of the canvas, so I am extremely careful with the consistency of the paint.”
The image is drawn with graphite pencil followed by ink and a grid is used to ensure the perspective is correct. The image is then built up gradually with thinned layers of paint. This is a very time consuming process, which means on average each painting takes around 1200-1700 hours to complete.