ABOUT MARTIN BROOKS
Martin trained at the Royal College of Art where he was awarded the Royal College Drawing Prize and Madame Tussauds Prize for Figurative Art.
Martin was awarded Arts Council funding to paint the Amish community in the US.
Notable portraits include theoretical physicist and broadcaster Professor Jim Al-Khalili, for the British Humanist Association and singer and songwriter
COMMISSIONS
This is a rough fee-guide for a single portrait. Frame, travel & accommodation expenses are not included. For groups and non-standard sizes please ask for a quote. I am not registered for VAT.
I am happy to travel to sitters and like one to five sittings depending on the complexity of the work.
PRICES
Drawings / Oil Sketches / Oil Portraits
Price on application
Group Exhibitions
- Royal Society of Portrait Painters Annual Exhibition, Mall Galleries, London 2019
- Royal Society of Portrait Painters Annual Exhibition, Mall Galleries, London 2018
- Royal Society of Portrait Painters Annual Exhibition, Mall Galleries, London 2017
- BP Portrait Award Annual Exhibition, National Portrait Gallery, London 2016
- Royal Society of Portrait Painters Annual Exhibition, Mall Galleries, London 2016
- Royal Society of Portrait Painters Annual Exhibition, Mall Galleries, London 2015
- Royal Society of Portrait Painters Annual Exhibition, Mall Galleries, London 2014
- The Folio Society, Gulbenkian Hall, Royal College of Art, London
- ‘X’, The Tannery, London
- South West Open, Plymouth City Museum and Art Gallery
- ‘Compendia’, Spacex Gallery, Exeter
- ‘Goodwill’, Spacex Gallery, Exeter
- ‘Doobraak’ Illustration from the Royal College of Art, The Berlage, Amsterdam
- ‘Breakthrough’, Exhibition 25 years of Illustration, Royal College of Art, London
- Blackheath Gallery, London
Solo Exhibitions
- Gulbenkian Hall, Royal College of Art, London
- Spacex Gallery, Exeter
- Honiton Arts Festival, Honiton
- The Gardner Centre, University of Sussex, Brighton
- The Brewhouse Gallery, Taunton
AWARDS
- Artists’ International Development Fund Award: ‘Painting the Amish’ 2017
- BP Travel Award Finalist 2016
- Bulldog Portrait Bursary Finalist, Royal Society of Portrait Painters 2014
- Janet Konstam Trust Travel and Research Award, Verrochio Arts Centre, Italy 1999
- Folio Society 50th Anniversary Illustration Competition, Gulbenkian Hall, Royal College of Art 1997
- Special Commendation South West Open 1990
- Madame Tussauds Prize for Figurative Art, Royal College of Art 1985
- Royal College Drawing Prize 1985
- Brian Robb Travel Scholarship, Italy 1984
- Rupert Acott Prize for Figure Painting, Exeter College of Art and Design 1981
NOTABLE SITTERS
- Physicist and broadcaster Professor Jim Al-Khalili OBE for the British Humanist Association
- Singer and songwriter Laura Mvula