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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
National
Steven Morris

‘A homage to St Davids’: artist aims to paint everyone in Britain’s smallest city

A section of the painting, featuring head and shoulder portraits of three people
Grahame Hurd-Wood has set himself the task of painting everyone who lives in St Davids. Photograph: Kara Thomas/Athena Pictures/The Guardian

From a distance, they look like vivid pieces of abstract art – but move a little closer and dozens of small, characterful portraits shine out of the work.

The ambitious idea of the City of Portraits (Dinas Portreadau) project, a decade in the making and nowhere near complete, is to record the faces of all 1,800 people who live in Britain’s smallest city, St Davids in south-west Wales.

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