
Photographing any member of the Royal Family is a nerve-wracking and significant commission, but capturing the late Queen Elizabeth’s portrait sounds like a whole other level. Artist Chris Levine found it "surreal" at first, especially when faced with her "mechanism" for meeting people.
Opening up to woman&home in our February issue, Chris - who’s perhaps best known for his exquisite 2008 portrait of Her Majesty titled Lightness of Being - explained that he initially found the monarch hard to read.