Antony Williams VPRP NEAC

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…

Toby Wiggins RP

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…

Emma Wesley RP

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…

Daphne Todd OBE PPRP NEAC

ABOUT DAPHNE Daphne Todd has the unusual distinction of having been awarded First Prize at the 2010 BP Portrait Awards, reputedly the most important portrait prize in the world. Back in 1983, she won Second Prize (when it was called the John Player Award) at the Portrait Awards. In the interim, she was elected the…

Michael Taylor RP

ABOUT MICHAEL Michael Taylor was born in Sussex and studied at the Worthing School of Art (1969-70) and Goldsmiths School of Art (1970-73). He has received many awards for his paintings, and undertaken a number of important portrait commissions. Four of his works are in the National Portrait Gallery, London: portraits of the musician Julian…

Benjamin Sullivan RP NEAC

ABOUT BENJAMIN Benjamin Sullivan was born in Grimsby in 1977. He studied painting and drawing at Edinburgh College of Art, graduating in 2000. Since then, he has established a growing reputation as a figurative painter. His work has been widely exhibited, including at the Royal Academy and National Portrait Gallery. Among other distinctions, he has…

Melissa Scott-Miller RP NEAC RBA

ABOUT MELISSA SCOTT-MILLER Melissa Scott-Miller studied at the Slade School of Fine Art. In 2018 Melissa was elected a member of the Royal British Artists. She also won the People’s choice prize at the Lynn Painter Stainers exhibition and the Dry Red Press Award at the New English Art club annual exhibition. Also she had…

Stephen Shankland RP

ABOUT STEPHEN My paintings contain thoughtful figures absorbed in a sense of narrative. Composition & draughtsmanship as well as colour all contribute to the story unfolding in each scene. Figures gaze from their world with telling looks, often sharing the composition with objects that have symbolic relevance to the story. 1971 Born, Irvine, Scotland 1989-93…

Tai-Shan Schierenberg Hon RP

ABOUT TAI-SHAN Born in 1962. Tai-Shan Schierenberg trained at St Martin’s School of Art and the Slade School of Art. Winner of the 2011 Ondaatje Prize for Portraiture. COMMISSIONS PRICE GUIDE Oil 20 x 16 inches £10,000 24 x 20 inches £15,000 36 x 28 inches £20,000 This is a rough fee-guide for a single…

Susan Ryder RP NEAC

ABOUT SUSAN My father was an amateur painter, so I borrowed his oil paints from the age of 13, he was my greatest influence with his love of the Impressionists and then I discovered Vermeer and Vuillard through my art school-teacher Bernard Dunstan RA. I studied at the Byam Shaw School of Painting in London…