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“The barriers are not as high as people think. “Other artists should embrace this kind of work,” said Yeo. Working with the games programmer Vitaliy Tyzhnevyy, who joined Yeo’s team from Goldsmiths, University of London, and his studio manager, Ruben Cooke, he built the virtual experience from scratch. It is not just virtual reality, it is fully immersive and we have built in game technology so that we can add more to the content.” “Students often ask and I’m not always as helpful as I’d like,” he said. Yeo said his greatest challenge during lockdown was to find a better way to share his working process with the outside world. “That was more important than the fact they are all used to being on camera.” “Already knowing them was key,” said Yeo. Ahead of Oliver in the sitter’s chair were actor and director Dexter Fletcher, presenter Fearne Cotton, and the particle physicist Brian Cox.

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This spring, Yeo, 49, who has previously painted Sir David Attenborough, Tony Blair, Malala Yousafzai and Nicole Kidman, painted a series of other friends on FaceTime. But at the same time I’m not hiding the things I got wrong.”Ġ1:02 Artist 'Studio App' shows users virtually around Jonathan Yeo's workplace – video But I wanted a fair impression of every stage, so in the end we only did a little editing.

I wondered whether to film it in real time or to edit it down to the most interesting moments. “The FaceTime portrait and the app are an opportunity to share what I do. It’s usually something that I try to swerve,” said Yeo. “I had the idea because people are always asking to come to the studio and watch me work. Studio App offers virtual visitors a fly-on-the-wall remote experience.

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Yeo, who developed a virtual 3D printing sculpture tool in 2018 for the Royal Academy of Art, has always been interested in new technology and now, in collaboration with specialists at his studio in Chelsea, west London, he has created an immersive version of his sittings with Oliver that can be downloaded for free from the App Store and Google Play. “Perhaps that always happens, but I had the opportunity to see it clearly this time.” “I did notice that when the conversation got particularly lively, the painting got noticeably worse,” the artist admitted. This meant Yeo had to ask a man who is most famous for his speedy approach to creativity to sit completely still. Oliver, 45, sat for the portrait from the 16th-century home in Finchingfield, Essex, he shares with his wife Jools and their children. He glimpsed a little at the start, but then we decided it would be more interesting for him to wait.” “He had not seen the painting until this weekend. “Jamie was sometimes reflective and sometimes more of his twinkly self, and so I show a bit of both in the picture,” Yeo told the Observer.