Jaime hold his sword erect, the reflection passes through the dragon head incense burner, refence to the kingslaying. On the table, two wine goblets, Cersei’s face mirrored in the silver.

Jay Johnstone’s oil portrait of Jaime Lannister reads like a relic recovered from a royal chapel, its surface worked on canvs panel in the patient manner of the old masters. Here the Lion of Lannister is no simple villain. Golden light catches the brow and jaw, recalling the beauty that made him the realm’s most celebrated knight, yet the gaze is guarded and tired. Johnstone paints a man defined entirely by contradiction: sworn protector and oathbreaker, brother and lover, swordsman and survivor. The result is a quietly powerful character study of pride, loyalty and the long, uncertain road towards redemption.