ABOUT FRANCES Winner of the Burkes Peerage Foundation Award 2022 and the 2021 William Lock Portrait Prize, Frances was born in Cambridge, England in 1983. Because she has a prime interest in figurative classical style she left England to pursue a classical training in Florence at Charles. H. Cecil Studios in 2001, Her training was for…
The Ondaatje Prize for Portraiture is sponsored by Sir Christopher Ondaatje CBE OC and the Ondaatje Foundation, this generous prize of £10,000 plus the Society’s Gold Medal is awarded for the most distinguished portrait of the year. The Prize was launched in 1995 and took the form of a commission to paint H.M. The Queen,…
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…
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. 2024 winner: Miriam Escofet, ‘”What will survive of us…”‘ View winning portraits from previous years below. PREVIOUS WINNERS 2023 – Martyn Harris 2022 – Catherine Creaney 2021 – Sandra Kuck…
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 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…
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…
PRICE GUIDE Oil Painting: From £8,000 Drawing: From £2,500 These approximate prices are for a single portrait, frame and travel expenses are not included. For groups and non-standard sizes please enquire. I would require around 4 to 8 sittings for a painting, of about 2 to 4 hours with breaks. I work from drawings…
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…
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…
