Extraordinary Portraits

Extraordinary Portraits is a BBC Television series in which members of the public who have a notable achievement are paired with an artist to have their portrait painted, or in some cases drawn, photographed, or sculpted. It first aired on 14 February 2022.^[1]

Extraordinary Portraits
Presented by	Tinie Tempah (series 1 & 2) Bill Bailey (series 3-)
Country of origin	United Kingdom
No. of series	4
No. of episodes	24
Original release
Network	BBC Television
Release	14 February 2022 (2022-02-14)

The first two series were presented by Tinie Tempah; series three and four by Bill Bailey.^[2][3] All the sitters in series three were related to the NHS, to mark its 75th anniversary.^[2][4]

An exhibition of works from the first two series was held at Turner Contemporary in 2022.^[5] From 13 March to 6 April 2025, during Bradford's year as UK City of Culture, an exhibition of the portraits from series four is scheduled to be held at the city's Loading Bay venue.^[2][6]

Series four was filmed at Kelmarsh Hall in Northampton.

Episodes

Christy Lee Rogers, seen in 2011

Mark Ormrod, seen in 2017

• 1:1. Twin sisters Georgia and Melissa Laurie, who survived a crocodile attack, painted by Roxana Halls^[7]
• 1:2. Model Cee Cee, who has albinism, photographed underwater by Christy Lee Rogers^[8]
• 1:3. Patrick Hutchinson, painted by Dale Grimshaw^[9]
• 1:4. Burns survivor Catrin Pugh, drawn by Kelvin Okafor^[10]
• 1:5. Former Royal Marine Mark Ormrod, painted by Thomas Croft — the abstract background was painted by Ormrod's children Mason and Evie^[11][12]
• 1:6. 88-year-old farmer Alec Burrough, painted by Caroline Pool^[13]
• 2:1. Fundraiser and cancer survivor Harriet Middleton, painted by Stuart Pearson Wright — who subsequently donated his painting to Shetland Museum^[14]
• 2:2. Charlotte Banfield, who has cerebral palsy, photographed by Bella Kotak^[15]
• 2:3. Footballer Jahmal Howlett-Mundle, painted by Lo Lo^[16]
• 2:4. Powerlifter Karenjeet Kaur Bains, painted by Amar Stewart^[17]
• 2:5. Jamie Dalgoutte, painted by Ross Muir^[18]
• 2:6. Teacher Christian Foley, painted by Laura Quinn Harris^[19]
• 3:1. Trauma surgeon Martin Griffiths, sculpted by Nick Elphick^[20][21]
• 3:2. Doctor Grace Spence Green, painted by Jemisha Maadhavji^[22][23]
• 3:3. Araf Saddiq, Scotland's first Asian paramedic, photographed by Brock Elbank^[24]
• 3:4. Jules Lewis, an end-of-life care nurse, painted by Belinda Eaton^[25]
• 3:5. Six members of the Edwards family, painted by Adebanji Alade^[26]
• 3:6. Hospital porter Holly Crawshaw, with her daughter Renae, painted by Mark Draisey^[27][28]
• 4:1. Clare Sacco, who founded a charity after receiving a diagnosis of incurable cancer, painted by Oriane Pierrepoint^[29][30]
• 4:2. Rizwan Javed, painted by Jack Dickson^[31]
• 4:3. Gill Sayell, painted by David James^[32]
• 4:4. Former paratrooper Christian Lewis, sculpted by Hywel Pratley
• 4:5. Foster carers Marva and Lionel Warmington, painted by Chloe Cox^[33]
• 4:6. Down's syndrome campaigner Millie Anna, painted by Karen Turner^[34]