Introducing Nelda Sale, the Series Editor for Sky Art’s Portrait Artist of the Year, who has been on set with the incredible Storyvault team since series 3. Read up on what happens in the lead up to the series launch and during filming. Nelda brings her insightful and experienced perspective to the whole process and to my experience as a featured artist on Sky Art’s Portrait Artist of the Year 2025.

 Lorna and I go back many years from our time in New York. I sat for a chat with her and co-founder, Rachael McNabb to talk about New Public, the cultural placemaking and public art agency they launched together in London in 2023. Turns out it’s a lot more than you’d expect from an art agency. They are women-owned and operated and strive for something deeper than simply winning a bid — they are on a mission to affect cultures at the root level through a full range of creative mediums.