How to Look at a Painting (...of a Face)

Television (Full Length Episode) – 2011

Painted portraits take us back to a basic, human fact. Faces are fascinating for good reason, everybody's got one and we can't stop staring at them.
– Presenter and art curator Justin Paton talks about the appeal of portraits

This is an artist who is constantly remaking himself in paint.
– Justin Paton talks about Dunedin based painter Jeffrey Harris

He paints the humour and horror of looking 'wrong' in a world obsessed with looking right.
– Presenter Justin Paton talks about the work of US painter John Currin

It was a terrific little book, largely because Paton, curator and art writer, is such a terrifically good writer ... Paton's writing couldn't be further from pretentious artspeak, and the good news is his television personality is equally straightforward and appealing.
– Dominion Post reviewer Linda Burgess on How to Look at a Painting, 11 March 2011, page B10