This is the story of how the flagship Sky Arts show, Portrait Artist of the Year, pivoted to reinvent itself for an audience under lockdown and has created a global live paint-a-long..

Each week a celebrity sits for an invited artist to paint their portrait on a live Facebook stream that now plays to a worldwide audience.  The show is inspirational and  regularly gets over 2,000 submissions from the viewers of their own portraits of the celebrity.

In this YouTube live streamed event, presenter Joan Bakewell and the team behind PAOTW reveal all…

You’ll be able to ask questions of the panel on YouTube chat or via Twitter @RTS_London using  #PAOTW

Chair: Aradhna Tayal, Producer, Consultant, Clockhouse Media

Panel:
Joan Bakewell, Presenter, Portrait Artist of the Week 
Phil Edgar-Jones, Director of Sky Arts
Danielle Graham, Executive Producer, Storyvault Films
Sam Richards, Executive Producer, Storyvault Films 
Kimberley Klauss, Artist & PAOTY Semi-Finalist
Adam Noble, Director, Sky Production Services
Charlie Sever, Live Producer, Storyvault Films
Ben Burdon, Studio Manager, Sky Production Services