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		</div><p><a href="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/mi6-stays-hidden-in-art-display.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-full" title="Artist James Hart Dyke with his paintings of A year with MI6 at the Mount Street Gallery, London" src="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/min-mi6-stays-hidden-in-art-display.jpg" alt="Artist James Hart Dyke with his paintings of A year with MI6 at the Mount Street Gallery, London"/></a></p>
<p>As an organisation shrouded in secrecy, it might seem odd for MI6 to appoint an artist to depict its mysterious work.</p>
<p>But this was the unusual assignment handed to James Hart Dyke, who was invited to record daily life at the Secret Intelligence Service (SIS) in a series of paintings and sketches.</p>
<p>It was not a mission James Bond ever attempted, but the artist had to take the same cloak and dagger approach to his job as the fictional spy did in Ian Fleming&#8217;s novels.</p>
<p>The project saw him working closely with MI6 for a year, both in the UK and abroad, although his access to the service was, unsurprisingly, carefully controlled.</p>
<p>With the need for discretion paramount, the paintings do not identify actual officers, agents, operations, or events.</p>
<p>But the artwork, commissioned for the service&#8217;s centenary celebrations and going on display to the public in London&#8217;s West End on Tuesday, sheds a glimmer of light on the world of spying &#8211; albeit through impressionistic brush strokes and veiled meanings.</p>
<p>Some of the settings are familiar enough: the MI6 headquarters at Vauxhall in London, rendered in oil on canvas, or the blue-grey watercolour of the turnstile barring all but a privileged few from the building.</p>
<p>But in other paintings, the meaning is more oblique.</p>
<p>Doughnut on stripes depicts just that &#8211; a still life of the cake on a pink and white tablecloth &#8211; a jokey reference to the nickname given to the ring-shaped GCHQ.</p>
<p>https://www.sis.gov.uk/(MI6)</p>
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