Canadian artist Doris Rose has been selected for the 2026 Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer Portrait Award at the National Portrait Gallery in London, UK. Formerly known as the BP Portrait Award, the exhibition is widely regarded as one of the world’s leading showcases for contemporary portrait painting.
Doris’ selected work, Stripes, is a self-portrait oil painting on copper exploring perceptual distortion informed by her lived experience with chronic migraine and ADHD. Using layered oil painting techniques, the work creates a shifting triple-exposure effect that translates altered sensory perception into visual form.
Born in the UK and raised in Canada, Doris Rose is now based in rural Ontario and has built a large international following through her contemporary realist portraiture and educational art content online.