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Royal Society of Portrait Painters

To promote the practice of and further excellence in painted portraiture

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#CallforEntries: Our RP Drawing Prize is now open!DO YOU DRAW PEOPLE?We are proud to launch the RP Drawing Prize: Revealing the Human.This is a new, dynamic opportunity for artists, designers and creatives whose work involves drawing.The prize is open to artists in the UK and internationally.This inaugural open call welcomes submissions in all drawing styles and techniques, providing a vibrant platform for bold, original, and thought-provoking work.We are seeking submissions from artists who depict people, in whatever form that happens to be.We are keen to explore and expand the idea of what a portrait can be and because drawing is such an immediate, direct response to the human, we’re hoping to be surprised by a wide variety of responses.The RP Drawing Prize is open to creatives at all stages of their careers.A distinguished panel will select up to 120 works to be exhibited at The University of Hull Art Gallery.Works which feature in the exhibition can be available for sale and the FBA Art Consultancy will be available to manage commission enquiries.There is also the chance to win The RP Drawing Prize of £5,000, as well as other prizes and awards. Find out more & submit entries here: www.therp.co.uk🗓️ Submission deadline: Wednesday 20th August 2025, 5pm Thank you @parkerharriscoImages: Emma Wesley RP, 'Nick in Tartan Trousers', Toby Wiggins RP, Helen Bray 2022 small' & Miriam Escofet RP, 'What Will Survive of Us'@emmawesleyportraitpainter@toby_wiggins_art@miriam.escofet.artist ..#rpdrawingprize #drawingprize #portraitdrawing #portraitdrawings #contemporarydrawing #contemporarydrawings #artopportunity #callforartists #figurativeart #royalsocietyofportraitpainters #miriamescofet #parkerharrisco #hull ... See MoreSee Less

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RP2025:Anthony Connolly and Anthony Williams At the China Art Museum, Shanghai for a retrospective of the work of Huang Azhong.Thanks to @shengxinyui art.@anthonyconnollyrp @antonywilliams1410Final picture: Zhang Hongbin, Antony Williams, Huang Azhong & Anthony Connolly ..#royalsocietyofportraitpainters #east #ContemporaryArt #FigurativeArt #Artist #ArtistsonInstagram #china #chinamuseum #HuangAzhong #art #Shanghai #ArtOnInstagram #Shengxinyuart #Artists #rp #Exhibition #ArtSocieties ... See MoreSee Less

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RP Michael Taylor has an exhibition titled 'still Life' opening tomorrow which includes 12 paintings!Where?Portland Gallery 3 Bennet StreetLondon SW1A 1RP@portlandgalleryWhen?5th - 20th June. "Michael Taylor’s new collection of still lives are an invitation to look — and to think about looking. The paintings allow us to inhabit spaces and range over textures. Carefully observed over several months of work, the pictures’ sense of reality is deceptive." - Alfie Robinson, 2025 Image: Michael Taylor RP, 'Empty Bowl'@michaeltaylor5863..#royalsocietyofportraitpainters #stilllife #michaeltaylor #saiedai #exhibition #paintings #openingsoon #portlandgallery #londonart #exhibitions #commissions #artsales #artistofinstagram #gogogo #congrats ... See MoreSee Less

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#RP2025:Antony Williams & Anthony Connolly at the Chen Yifei exhibition at Museum of Art Pudong (Shanghai) during their trip to the East . Wonderful show in a beautiful gallery.Thanks to @shengxinyui art.@anthonyconnollyrp @antonywilliams1410..#royalsocietyofportraitpainters #east #ContemporaryArt #FigurativeArt #Artist #ArtistsonInstagram #china #chinaGallery #ChenYifei #museum #chinaExhibition #art #Shanghai #ArtOnInstagram #Shengxinyuart #Artists #rp #Exhibition #ArtSocieties #Buyart #newsletter ... See MoreSee Less

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@RP2025:Congratulations to Luke Fj Nolan for being one of four who were noted as Highly Commended for the de Laszlo Foundation Award with, 'Portrait of a Miao Girl’. The de Laszlo Foundation award, sponsored by the de Laszlo Foundation, aims to encourage young artists.Award for an artist under thirty-five years of age judged to have submitted the best portrait. We interviewed Luke during the PV, read more below... Q. Is there a specific style or technique which you use for you work?I always work from a visual impression. I’m always taking a distance from the sitter - 3x plus the longest length of the camera, stepping back from them and then often I’m then viewing them, through a small piece of mirror. The mirror flips the image and gives you a new perspective consistently to work with. I do this every time. Something I always say to students is, “If I went to a session without a mirror, I’d probably postpone it”. This is a friend of mine, she’s at London Fine Arts as well. The idea was to capture an impression with the sparkles of the headdress and the fluffy qualities from the dress itself. Q. Yes, so how did you create those speckles of shimmer/ light over the painting?I splashed paint here and there and at the same time, really squinted at the image, gaging which ones are going to stand out from a whole crowd of sparkles. Q. How do you start your paintings/ what are the initial stages?I start with the brush but I often do a slight under drawing for shape. I essentially, stroke by stroke, you paint the image and work with individual mark-making as I go. I start off with stumbling and glazing and so forth - I use a large amount of techniques to get to that final process. Q. Is there anything which you’re working on now or got coming up which you may want to share?I’m working on a few full figured paintings at the moment. The next stage is to work on the life size full figured portrait. And in this month I’ll be starting two projects. Along with opening up a new studio in Oval, I run classes and do drop in sessions. Trying to balance the business side of art and the creative. And the idea of the studio is to create a community of young artists which all have different ideas and learn from each other and exhibit together. Hopefully everybody is learning from everyone. Q. How long did the portrait take you in total?About 40 hours of sitting. Done over 7 sessions of maybe about 6 hours each. And I did it sort of with one sitting a week until the cause of Summer. This painting was painted in an older studio of mine. Q. And this is your first time exhibiting with us?YesImages: @marksepplephoto & Luke Fj Nolan, 'Portrait of a Miao Girl’@lukedraughts ... See MoreSee Less

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