AN artist is planning to paint portraits of all 1,800 residents of Britain’s smallest city.

    Grahame Hurd-Wood, 55, has already spent 14 years depicting the people of St Davids in Pembrokeshire, Wales.

    So far he has finished 112 pictures but believes he can complete the remaining 1,688 in a decade if he paints one person every two days.

    Eventually Grahame plans to merge them all into a giant panorama called City of Portraits.

    Grahame, who has lived in St Davids for 30 years, said: “I have been accepted into the community and I love it here.

    “This is my way of paying tribute to the place I call home.

    “The original concept was to paint a few people and then put the portraits together as one large image.

    “But after I painted just over 100 portraits I thought that if I concentrated more it would be possible to paint the whole city.”

    Each piece takes him between 45 minutes and four hours.

    His youngest subject so far has been four-year-old Erin Dauncey and the oldest Klaus Trier, 85.

    He said: “I tend to approach people to see if they would be happy to sit. But occasionally someone will ask me to do a portrait of them.

    “I do every portrait from a sitting. It’s nice to have the time to get to know that individual a little better.

    “St Davids is a very special place and a unique city. People from all walks of life integrate and live alongside one another.”

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