A Portrait of Lockdown, an exploration of the impact the national lockdown had on four artists in the age of COVID 19.On the 26th of March 2020, a national lockdown was imposed in the UK. My film looks at the impact this ruling had on four artists based in London and Leeds, and the work they produced during this time.Birungi Kawooya, an artist from South East London, explains how she felt unmotivated to create her artwork during lockdown, and that it wasn't until the Black Lives Matter movement gained national, and international recognition in the summer of 2020, that inspired her to begin again. In her section of the film, Birungi explains the importance of taking time out to rest and rejuvenate, to be able to be creative again, and confront systemic racism and white supremacy.Craig Keenan, an artist from East London, illustrates how having the coronavirus virus impacted his life during lockdown, and directly influenced the art work he created. During Craig’s illness, he was inspired to produce a work of art - a very striking impression of a ghost - from one of the white facial tissues in the box he was using. This reflected in a graphically whimsical way the period he was living through.Julia Pomeroy, an artist based in Leeds, discusses how the lockdown has impacted an integral part of her final degree year, and how the work she created has been directly influenced by the way people are communicating during lockdown via video calls.Roberto Grosso, an Italian artist based in London, pays tribute to the incredible work of the NHS during lockdown, by creating a piece of artwork called Heroes, inspired by the David Bowie song of the same name.