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…
ABOUT PAUL Born in 1952, I spent most of my childhood growing up in a village in the Kent countryside. Drawing was part of my life from a very early age so it was no surprise that I eventually found myself at Camberwell Art School and life as I now know it really began. I…
ABOUT JANE After a 2-year Foundation Course at St. Martin’s School of Art, Jane became an assistant to Edward Delaney, a well known scenic artist. She painted on black cloths for everything from Grand Opera to Bertram Mills’ circus! She continued working in the theatre, finally becoming a designer for Opera, Film, Theatre and Television…
ABOUT ALASTAIR Alastair Adams’ evolution as a figurative painter began post University with the first portrait he ever painted, selected for the National Portrait Gallery’s BP Portrait Award exhibition. What followed has evolved into a 30-year career of commissioned portraiture where his observational skills have made him a sought-after portrait artist with an international reputation…
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…
