Rowling with portrait
Portrait of Rowling to hang in London gallery
September 6, 2005 at 3:44 PM ET
Geri
CBBC Newsround
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at the National Portrait Gallery in London today. The artist, Stuart Pearson Wright said that he admires Rowling because she is a “woman who can successfully combine motherhood and a creative career.”
According to Wright:
I was drawn to Jo principally because of my admiration for a woman who can successfully combine motherhood and a creative career.
Jo told me that she had been drawn to my work because of the tiny paintings that I had done of a family of people with red hair.
She confessed to sharing a fascination for people with red hair, which any readers familiar with the Weasley family in the Harry Potter books should not be surprised about.
You can see a larger view of the portrait here and read JK's opinion of the portrait here.