ABOUT RICHARD Richard Foster was born in 1945 and brought up in Norfolk. He was educated at Harrow School, Studio Simi and the British Institute in Florence, Trinity College Oxford and the City and Guilds of London Art School; not forgetting the influence of his friends and contemporaries! He has been a Member of the…
ABOUT ANDREW Festing was born in 1941 he educated at Ampleforth College and RMA Sandhurst. He was commissioned into The Rifle Brigade where he served until 1969. Festing worked at Sotheby’s in 1969 and was head of the British Pictures Department from 1977-1981, where he became Sotheby’s chief expert for British Pictures, with and extensive…
ABOUT SIMON Simon Davis was born in 1968 in Stratford Upon Avon. In 2008, he was runner up in the BP Portrait award and that same year was elected as a RP. He is currently Vice-President . He divides his time between portrait painting and comic book illustration for the cult British comic 2000ad and his…
ABOUT SAM Sam was educated at Harrogate College of Arts and Technology, and Cleveland College of Art and Design. Sam has exhibited in the 2003 BP Portrait Award, was shortlisted for the Bulldog Bursary in 2009, and has exhibited with the Royal Society of Portrait Painters since 2010. Sam was elected as a Member of…
ABOUT SAIED DAI Saied Dai is Persian by birth, born in Tehran in 1958 and came to England at the age of six. He began his seven years of art training at Bournemouth and Poole College of Art and Design and shortly after was awarded a place at the Royal Academy of Arts where he…
ABOUT ANTHONY Anthony Connolly, President of the Royal Society of Portrait Painters, trained at Goldsmiths. He has work in many public and private collections including the Royal Collection at Windsor Castle, West Point Military Academy; and Rhodes House and Campion Hall, both in Oxford. Anthony is also an experienced teacher and runs occasional drawing and…
ABOUT DAVID David has been drawing and painting since early childhood. He trained at Northampton and Liverpool Schools of Art before spending almost 10 years studying and working in Japan. In 1989 he was shortlisted for the BP Portrait Award and elected a member of the Royal Society of Portrait Painters in 1997, serving as…
ABOUT DAVID David Caldwell was born in Helensburgh in the West of Scotland in 1977. He studied at the Glasgow School of Art (1994-98) and the Royal Drawing School (2003-05). He has won several awards and residencies for painting including the prestigious Bulldog Bursary from the Royal Society of Portrait Painters and The Founder’s Purchase…
ABOUT KENNY Kenny was newly elected in 2024. Born in Bangor, County Down, he obtained a BA Hons in Illustration from Brighton University, being tutored by the greats such as Raymond Briggs and John Lord. A 12-year career in publishing subsequently followed. Returning to Ireland in 1998, his practice in portraiture steadily gained momentum. Principally…
ABOUT KEITH I was born in 1956. Raised in Cheshire. I now live with my wife & children in Mid Wales. I have always drawn & painted. I have no formal art education: what I know, I know through working & studying the work of others. COMMISSIONS P.O.A METHOD OF WORKING Time with the sitter…
