See on Scoop.it – on design This year’s BP Portrait Award exhibition presents a compelling sense of narrative, says Florence Waters atelier EURA Scrapbook‘s insight: Visiting the BP Portrait award last Saturday felt , as it generally does, like taking a journey though time. A journey that took me back to my student years when , freshly arrived to the UK, I decided to submit and entry titled “Mad cow”. The entry, a self portrait, featured a mug (with the words on) with the tired eyes of an architectural student gazing back at the viewer. It was a portrait that I still like because of its honesty, but in truth rather amateurish. I must clear and confess that I never imagined being in with a chance to win any of the awards. All I wanted was the chance to be featured at the exhibition. More than ten years on, after seeing the level of entries rocket year after year, I could not imagine having the same audacity now. There would be a lot to discuss …