Congratulations to RP Toby Wiggins for winning this year’s RP Prize for best Small Portrait with ‘Ezra Aged Six and Three Quarters’. A prize of £2,000 for the best small portrait in the exhibition, measuring not more than 38 x 30.5 cm (15 x 12 inches) unframed. How did this portrait start? I had…
DetailsThis year, International Face Equality Week and Mental Health Awareness Week coincide. Both events hold themes that are incredibly relevant for both the Royal Society of Portrait Painters and the Federation of British Artists. This year’s theme for Mental Health Awareness week is community, to celebrate the power and importance of having a safe and…
DetailsJOHN SINGER SARGENT 1856 – 2025 John Singer Sargent was made an Honorary Member of The Royal Society of Portrait Painters in 1903. The Society is delighted to be able to celebrate its distinguished former member in this, his centenary year. The Sargent scholar, Richard Ormond, has very generously loaned Sargent’s painting of ‘Conrad…
DetailsMaurice de Sausmarez, ‘Self Portrait’ SUSAN RYDER RP: MY TEACHER My art has been influenced by many teachers, who I might prefer to call Masters, but the one who taught me the most was Maurice De Sausmarez. He became Principal of the Byam Shaw in 1962, just a year after I had started…
DetailsRP Toby Wiggins’ portrait of ‘Mary Spencer Watson’ (1913 – 2006) has recently been hung in Dunshay Manor in Dorset, UK. “It was made in her studio (in 2003) alongside the house and was exhibited at the National Portrait Gallery (courtesy of the BP Portait Award), London in 2004. Mary made the journey…
DetailsJohn Wonnacott RP, ‘James Fairfax Stamford Mill’, 2006 JOHN WONNACOTT RP: THREE BOOK FEATURES The first (above) is a book by Alexander Edward Gilly (2024) titled; ‘James Fairfax Portrait of a Collector in Eleven Objects’. The book on the late James Fairfax AO has John’s portrait of him both on the cover and…
DetailsKenny McKendry, ‘In a Ditchling Garden-John Vernon Lord’ KENNY MCKENDRY RP: MY TEACHER Blinking into the light of my first real encounter of a genuine artistic genius stepped John Vernon Lord in the distant foothills of 1983. Arriving at what was then Brighton Polytechnic, later to become The University of Brighton, I had…
DetailsKenny McKendry RP, ‘Caledonian Autumn Sun’, oil on wood, 27 x 21 cm SOLO EXHIBITION AT GORRY GALLERY “It has been eighteen years since Kenny last exhibited in Dublin. In 2006 he had his first solo show in the Republic at the Gorry Gallery. His forthcoming exhibition, Rathlin, Portrait of an Island and…
DetailsKathryn 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…
DetailsAntony Williams RP, ‘Green Lemon’ SOLO EXHIBITION AT MESSUM’S GALLERY ‘STUDIO’ Composed primarily of still life subjects and represents Antony’s continuing fascination and engagement with the still life genre. When? 19th February – 29th March Where? Messum’s London, Cork Street art gallery To stay in touch and hear the latest…
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