This commission for Benjamin Sullivan celebrates the RAF Club’s 100th Anniversary. He has been working on it since February 2018. The portrait includes a number of personal links between Benjamin and this commission. If you look in the background you will see a Spitfire – ‘S’ for ‘Strike’ – from 253 Squadron from which the artist’s grandfather,…
We were deeply saddened to learn that RP member Jason Sullivan died unexpectedly on August 25th, 2018, at Southampton General Hospital, aged 60. Jason started his Foundation Art studies at Grimsby College of Technology in 1974, and graduated from his Fine Art degree at Sheffield Polytechnic in 1979. In 1991 Jason won second prize in…
Michael Noakes . 1933- 30 May 2018 Guardian Obituary Times Obituary Telegraph Obituary and something from our records… Merlin Stewart recording an interview with Michael Noakes in 2014 Noakes watched as aides whisked away the President’s glass of cola each time a stranger entered, in case it might be mistaken for whiskey. Such…
Associates of the RP have numbered among the winners of the BP Portrait Award on many occasions, including last year’s winner Benjamin Sullivan RP NEAC, the 2010 winner Daphne Todd OBE PPRP NEAC, and the 1996 winner James Hague RP. This year, we are delighted to announce that the overall winner of the BP Portrait…
Each year, after the Annual Exhibition of the Royal Society of Portrait Painters winds to a close, the Members of the Royal Society of Portrait Painters gather together to review the portfolios of exhibitors who have applied successfully to become Candidates in a bid to take the next step and to become a full member…
Visitors Royal Society of Portrait Painters’ 2018 Private View Visitors Royal Society of Portrait Painters’ 2018 Private View Shawn McGovern with Xavier Bray and Richard Foster Recognising talent Michael Noakes portrait of ‘H.M.The Queen’ Michael Eavis with his portrait by June Mendoza James Hague receiving Ondaatje Award from Dr Xavier Bray John Burke with the…
Two of the four artists shortlisted for the National Portrait Gallery BP Portrait Award have also selected for our Annual Portrait Exhibition at Mall Galleries in May: Congratulations to Miriam Escofet and Ania Hobson, see a short Interview with Ania Hobson. Members, including Antony Williams and Neale Worley will also be exhibiting. Image: Miriam Escofet ‘An Angel at my Table’ …
The Annual Portrait Exhibition at Mall Galleries in May includes many quality portraits, some of which will depict faces you might recognise, including HM The Queen, Dame Judi Dench, Michael Eavis (founder of Glastonbury Festival), Sir Alan Parker (director of famous films Evita and Bugsy Malone among others), as well as Raymond Briggs (author and…
This year 2,142 portrait works were entered online in the first stage of the judging process for the Open Call of our Annual Exhibition. Excitingly, submission numbers are up 9% on previous years! For the second and final stage of the submissions process, the physical portraits are brought to London to be seen by the…
