The Smallwood Architects Prize of £1,000, inaugurated in 2016, is awarded for a portrait in which architectural or interior features play an important part. This Year’s winner is Sandra Kuck for ‘Through a Prism’ View winning portraits from previous years below. PREVIOUS WINNERS 2020 – Stephen Wood 2019 – David Caldwell RP 2018…
ABOUT ROBBIE Robbie Wraith left school at 16, and went to study painting in Florence at the invitation of Pietro Annigoni. He has had over thirty exhibitions in Britain, Europe, America, and China. He has work in the private collection of HM The Queen as well as more than 40 pictures in the private collection…
ABOUT NEALE Collected by the Prince of Wales, Neale is a classical painter of high quality. Neale exhibits regularly with the NEAC and he shows at Panter and Hall, and the Russell Gallery. His work is also selected for the BP Portrait Award at the National Portrait Gallery. COMMISSIONS Empty section. Edit page to add…
ABOUT JOHN WONNACOTT John Wonnacott was born in London in 1940 and studied at the Slade School of Fine Art from 1958-63. John taught drawing at Reading University and the Norwich school of art until 1985. He was represented by Marlborough Fine Art from 1980-88 and by Agnews from 1988-2011. John’s paintings are included in…
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. A member of The Royal Society of Portrait Painters, Martin’s work has been selected for the BP Portrait Award and the Royal Society of Portrait Painters Annual Exhibition…
ABOUT MIRIAM Miriam Escofet was born in Barcelona in 1967 and moved to the UK in 1979. The daughter of artists, she grew up surrounded by the rich visual lexicon of art. She studied 3D Design at Brighton School of Art. The making process was her first love and is still at the core of…
ABOUT ANTONY Antony Williams works almost exclusively in egg tempera, which can be a painstaking and exacting medium, but one which allows him to express a feeling he has about the look of the world. ‘All my work is the product of direct and intense observation, which can produce as a result a heightened sense…
ABOUT TOBY Toby Wiggins studied at the Royal Academy Schools. He has exhibited at the Royal Academy Summer Show, BP Portrait Award, Discerning Eye, Jerwood Drawing Prize and the Holburne Portrait Prize, Bath. Toby won the Prince of Wales Drawing Award in 2005 and 2013, the Changing Faces Prize in 2006 and the Lynn Painter-Stainers…
ABOUT EMMA Emma Wesley (b.1979) is an award-winning portrait painter who lives and works in London. Self-taught as an artist, she studied English Literature at Cambridge and Painting Conservation at the Courtauld Institute of Art before beginning a career as a portrait painter in 2003. Emma undertakes commissions ranging from small head studies to large…
ABOUT JOHN John Walton studied at the Ruskin School of Drawing, Oxford, and the Slade School of Fine Art, London. He has exhibited at the Royal Academy, the Royal Society of Portrait Painters, the Paris Salon, the Academie des Beaux Arts — Institut de France, and throughout the UK and France. During his career he…
