Image: Alastair Adams, ‘Peter & Helen Wellby’ Inside The Royal Society of Portrait Painters’ Commission Service Full article on Luxurious Magazine website Embark on an extraordinary and intrinsically personal Fine Art journey vis the Royal Society of Portrait Painters’ Portrait Commission Service, which provides exclusive access to the UK’s finest portrait painters. King…
DetailsImage: Paul Brason, ‘Noor Inayat Khan’ Queen Camilla unveils portrait of ‘spy princess’ Noor Inayat Khan Full article on The National News website British agent served in resistance in Nazi-occupied France and was killed at Dachau concentration camp. Queen Camilla unveiled a portrait of Second World War resistance agent Noor Inayat Khan at…
DetailsImage: Saied Dai, ‘Theresa May’ Saied Dai on his Theresa May portrait: ‘Thank God I didn’t have to paint Boris!’ Full article on The Guardian website The garlanded artist reveals the ‘intimate and intense’ process of looking for the person behind the politician to make his surprisingly humanising painting of the former PM…
DetailsImage: John Walton, ‘Self portrait’ John Walton RP 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 1990,…
DetailsImage: Saied Dai, ‘Theresa May’ Committee unveils portrait of former Prime Minister Theresa May Full article on UK Parliament website A portrait of former Prime Minister and Home Secretary – The Rt Hon Theresa May MP – has been unveiled in Parliament, following a commission from the Speaker’s Advisory Committee on Works of…
DetailsImage: Martin Brooks, ‘Jago’ Martin Brooks: in the studio with the Devon based artist Full article on Great British Life website Even as I climb the steps into painter Martin Brooks’s Devon studio, I know I am in the presence of rare talent. I see many types of extraordinary painting, but nothing…
DetailsImage: 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…
DetailsImage: Tania Rivilis in studio Tania Rivilis & Laura Quinn Harris Interview BBC World – On Air ! Women painting portraits Full Interview on TaniaRivilis.com Recording of interview – Produced by Jane Thurlow BBC World Interview Welcome to the conversation. The program about how women are shaping the world. Laura Quinn Harris…
DetailsImage: Laura Quinn & Tania Rivilis ‘Women painting portraits’ Full article on BBC website Artists from Ukraine and the UK tell Kim Chakanetsa about how they capture someone’s personality on canvas. Laura Quinn Harris is a UK artist specialising in oil portraits of people and animals. Her work has been displayed in exhibitions…
DetailsImage: Toby Wiggins RP, ‘A Preparatory Study for a Portrait of Ronad Blythe, pencil and pigment on paper, 52 x 38cm, 2023. This is a recent sketch towards a full portrait of the writer in his study at Bottengoms’ ‘The cat would not be pleased with anything less’ Full article on Church Times. RONALD…
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