Suzanne Gibbs on her painting ‘Facing It’ Interview by Emmeline Downie ED: Hello, Suzanne. Thank you for agreeing to speak to me about your portrait ‘Facing It’. To begin, I am interested in the specific reason you chose to paint your sister in this way – is it to challenge preconceived ideas of female…
The Royal Society of Portrait Painters and Mall Galleries are delighted to announce the Prizes & Awards from the Royal Society of Portrait Painters Annual Exhibition 2020. Congratulations to all artists who have been awarded prizes by our generous prize givers. The exhibition is open at Mall Galleries until Saturday 26 September. Book Your Tickets…
There will be hot competition this year for a place at our Annual Exhibition as we received a record number of entries, 2493 in all. This reflects an upward trend in works submitted online over the past few years (see below). Whether this reflects the increasing popularity of portraiture or better communications remains to be…
Peter Kuhfeld RP NEAC, Winner of The Ondaatje Prize for Portraiture – £10,000 The Ondaatje Prize for Portraiture is sponsored by Sir Christopher Ondaatje CBE OC and the Ondaatje Foundation, this generous prize of a £10,000 cheque plus the Society’s Gold Medal is awarded for the most distinguished portrait of the year. Kuhfeld was born in…
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During the RP’s Annual Exhibitions, our commissions consultants are on-hand to assist visitors with their commission enquiries. Visitors usually ask for an artist by name, so by logging the number of enquiries for each artist, we worked out the most highly sought-after artists of 2018. Alastair Adams claims first place, receiving the most enquiries. Former President…
After a day of judging on Tuesday, seven prizes were awarded this year during the Private View of the Royal Society of Portrait Painters.
See our Prizes and Sponsors Page for the 2018 portrait prize winners
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…
