Phil Hale Gold Silver & Bronze eventually becoming the official painter

eventually becoming the official painter to the French Navy

standing atop a vintage tool box

This is an earlyish work for Radford and quite different from his current output

Biding time (the Hanged Man is all about having to wait it out)

Judge Dredd

Phil Hale Gold Silver & Bronze eventually becoming the official painter"I first saw Phils work in the early 1990s, while on a trip to New York. His paintings were visceral, terrifying and beautiful. I wrote to him. He invited me to his studio in Spitalfields, London. To actually see his work and to ask him about his practice was like a light being switched on. I was still working in comics but felt drawn to expand into portraiture. I wanted work with more longevity and gravity and Phil was exactly the right person at the