From Kenneth Stevenson, August 2009:
"I can't tell you how much joy the portrait is giving us, and I know that the family will love it too. It's hard to single out aspects, so I won't, but you are very perceptive, talented and deep and I want you to know how much this is appreciated."
From a letter to Kenneth Stevenson from the Rt. Rev. James Jones, Bishop of Liverpool:
"What a splendid portrait! It radiates your personality and conveys so much of what you offer to us - an independence of mind and spirit, a scholarly detachment yet pastoral discernment, a magisterial authority tinged with a quizzical defiance; and shining through (for there is a beautiful use of light) a raw humanity which reflects that light from above."
From Nigel Boonham, President of the Society of Portrait Sculptors 2004 - 2009, describing the bishop's head:
"your handling of the character and paint [is] masterful and sublime".
Nigel Boonham, FRBS PSPS
20 August 2009