Icon and Iconographer
A Salvator Mundi (study) (40.5 x 25.7 x 3.8 cm. Oil, beeswax and 24 carat gold on prehistoric bog oak. 2023)
Meanie Mouse I (58 cm diameter, including frame. Acrylic and oil on canvas covered panel in a frame previously around a George Romney painting. 2015)
The White Druid of the Gorsedd of Bards (Rowan). (40.5 x 25.7 x 3.8 cm. Oil and beeswax on prehistoric bog oak. 2019)
William Orbit. (25 cm diameter. Acrylic and oil on panel. 2019)
Wadsworth’s portrait of former Archbishop of Canterbury Dr Rowan Williams hanging alongside Rivera’s Head of an Apostle in Graves Gallery Sheffield as part of her retrospective exhibition GAZE.
The Taxidermist. (45 cm diameter. Acrylic and oil on canvas on panel. 2021)
The Impossibility of Love in the Modern Age (100 x 79.8 cm ,including frame. Oil on linen in a frame previously around a David Jagger painting. 2016)
Pink Muse. (50 x 40cm. Oil and acrylic on Mylar. 2021.)
Circular Justice. (61 x 56 cm. Oil and acrylic on both side of Mylar. 2022)
Disneyland Dagenham. (101 x 126 cm, including frame. Acrylic and oil on canvas. 2015.)
Il Magnifico. (Acylic and oil on panel. 30 cm diameter.) In 2019 Lorna met actor Daniel Sharman when he was playing the lead role of Lorenzo Medici in the celebrated Netflix series. They collaborated on a series of paintings where he sat for her in character.
In November 2019 Graves Gallery at Museums Sheffield staged a retrospective of Wadsworth’s work which had over 16 thousand visitors.
The first room of GAZE, Wadsworth retrospective at Graves Gallery Sheffield.
Richard Curtis. (Acrylic, acrylic ink, oil and three shades of 23 carat gold on panel. 86.7 x 58 cm.2012 - 2019.) Wadsworth was Artist in Residence on set of Curtis's About Time, as well as for the charity he founded, Comic Relief.
Bernie Katz: In Memorium (Acrylic, 23 carat gold and oil on gesso panel. 25.4 x 14.6 cm. 2018)
“Bernie was sprightly, perky, bouncy, cheeky and alert. No respecter of physical boundaries, a hugger, a squeezer, kisser and ruffler of hair. Busy, bustling and bonhomous he could seem like the cheeriest, cheekiest chappie in London – but you, Lorna, you have seen what those of us who loved him saw in him, something distressed, sad, forlorn, lonely and lost. Now he is truly lost, lost to us all, but you have given him back in ikon form, haloed in gold. Thank you.” - Stephen Fry
GAZE room 1, right hand wall.
Rt. Hon. David Blunkett MP. (Acrylic and oil on canvas. 91.5 x 122 cm. 2003)
The Art Dealer’s Son (Twenty-five 40 x 40 cm panels framed in a 228 x 228 cm grid, various depths. Oil on canvas, oil on linen, oil on aluminium, acrylic on panel. 2014 - 2016)
Brimstone and Treacle (Rupert Friend) (120 x 91 cm. Acrylic, gloss paint and three shades of 23 carat gold on canvas. 2012)
Murray Lachlan Young. (40 cm diameter. Acrylic and oil on panel. 2019.)
The second room of GAZE at Graves Gallery Museums Sheffield
‘In Memoriam’ (oil on linen 136 x 111 cms - 157 x 132 cm including frame) was completed in 2015.
It follows on from the iconic 6 foot portrait Wadsworth made when Thatcher sat for her five times in 2007, which has been looming over the Conservative Party in their boardroom’s HQ since 2013.
John John (2 panels 40 cm diameter. Yves Klein blue, oil and 23 carat gold on panel. 2020)
The Journalist (After Yves Klein) (40 cm diameter. Yves Klein blue and oil on panel. 2020)
