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MELBOURNE: As the triple-murder trial of Victorian woman Erin Patterson winds down with final arguments being presented by prosecution and defence legal teams, an internationally renowned courtroom portraiture tutor will today fly out of Australia and head back home to Spain to await her next engagement.

Cecilia Gimenez, (main picture) has been in Australia giving advice to courtroom sketch artists covering the trial of Patterson (below) who is accused of killing three people by serving them poisonous mushrooms in a 2023 lunch at her Leongatha home.

Ms Gimenez began her career as a tutor specialising in training courtroom artists at the age of 81 in 2012 after she was revealed as the person responsible for the restoration of a 19^th century fresco portrait of Jesus Christ painted in the 1930s by Spanish artist Elias Garcia Martinez in her local village church in the Spanish town of Borja. (below)

“At the time I was initially surprised to be offered such a role, but when I studied the output of courtroom artists around the world I felt I could bring my unique talents to bear on their work,” Ms Gimenez said.

“I’ve since been very pleased to train courtroom artists in many nations who, for some reason, are still engaged to deliver sketches of usually high-profile people for whom thousands, often millions, of actual real-life photographic images already exist.

“But I’m not one to look a gift horse in the mouth, so I’ll be heading back to Borja to wait for my next assignment.”

Ms Gimenez said she was proud of all of her students.

“But certainly a real highlight was the time I spent in Colorado in 2017 training artists covering the case involving a radio DJ alleged to have groped pop star Taylor Swift – or was it Rhianna?” (below)

The Patterson trial is the second time Ms Gimenez has visited Australia to train courtroom artists.

“I came to Australia a few years ago to train artists for the Canberra trial of that young chap Bruce Lehrmann,” she explained.

“It was one of my more enjoyable assignments and I was very pleased with the outcome. The sketches really met the standards I set with my restoration of the Martinez portrait of Jesus. (below)

“I was especially taken by a courtroom sketch published during the Lehrmann trial of the accused and someone I was later told was his defence lawyer, although I had initially thought it was Derryn Hinch,” Ms Gimenez admitted. (below)

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