Demo: Drawing a portrait with charcoal by Mick McNicholas

Monday, 05 October, 2026, 19:15 – 21:00

Conservative Club, Long Street, Devizes SN10 1NW

Largely self-taught, Mick is a portrait artist predominantly working in oils and charcoal. He has exhibited with the Royal Society of Portrait painters and at the Royal West of England Academy. Mick will be demonstrating how to draw a portrait with charcoal.

ABOUT THE ARTIST

Mick McNicholas is an artist living and working in Wokingham, UK. Following a successful career as a digital artist, Mick’s practice led him to develop his skills in drawing originally to enhance how he made digital works, but as he progressed, he rediscovered his passion for producing physical works of Art that actually exist in the world. He has pursued the path of a representational artist, working across media and primarily from life, ever since.

Despite studying Art & Design Foundation in his youth and holding an MA in Digital Media, Mick is largely self-taught in representational art. However, he has taken classes and attended workshops with internationally renowned artists, such as Hollis Dunlap and Nicolás Uribe. He now regularly organises workshops for other international artists, as an extension to his artistic practice.

Mick’s drawings and paintings have been exhibited in several prestigious shows (most notably at the Mall Galleries with the Royal Society of Portrait Painters and the Pastel Society, and in the ING Discerning Eye Exhibition), as well as various group exhibitions around the country, such as The New Light Art Prize Exhibition.

Visit his website here.