Kathryn Kynoch RP, ‘Andy as Jester’ KATHRYN KYNOCH RP RIP 1941 – 2025 Kathryn Kynoch passed away peacefully in Glasgow Royal Infirmary on 27th February 2025. She had been suffered ill-health from mid-2024, and was admitted to the Infirmary on 31st December. Born in Portobello (Edinburgh) in 1941, Kathryn studied at the Glasgow School of Art from 1959 to1964. After…
Image: RP June Mendoza, Mark Sepple photography
Image: John Walton RP, ‘Self portrait’ John Walton RIP 1925 – 2023 In 1976 John Walton was elected a member of the Royal Society of Portrait Painters, a Member Society of the Federation of British Artists (FBA), an arts educational charity which administers the Mall Galleries. During the eighties the FBA experienced difficulties and in…
Image: Tom Coates, ‘Homage’ Tom Coates RP PPRBA PPNEAC RWS RIP May 5th 1945 – July 20th 2023 Tom died peacefully at home in my arms surrounded by his family. Tom adored his Portrait painting from the Peoples Portraits to The Queen Mother’s 90th Birthday Celebrations, in action on Horseguards. Tom used…
Jason Bowyer PPNEAC PS RP (1957-2019) Jason Bowyer was a great many things to the art world: a talented painter, draughtsman, and passionate teacher, and of course; one of our members, as well as a member of The Pastel Society, and the New English Art Club, too. He was Past President of the New English…
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…
Dr. Leonard McComb, RA, HonRP, HonRWS 3rd August 1930 – 19th June 2018 I am saddened to tell everyone that that most distinguished artist Len McComb has passed away. As a Post-graduate student at the RA Schools between 1977-80. I had the good fortune to meet and to talk about painting and sculpture with him,…
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…