ABOUT BENJAMIN Benjamin studied mathematics and physics at university because he was interested in them. His long-term plan throughout, though, was to become a painter and his artistic training happened concurrently through experimentation, practice, and reading. Benjamin has been a full-time artist since 2011, and as well as the RP, he is an elected member…
ABOUT JAMIE Elected in 2022 Jamie Routley is our newest Member. He was born in Newport, South Wales in 1982 and educated entirely in the Welsh language at Ysgol Gyfun Gwynllyw. Having completed his Ba in Illustration at Swindon College, he studied under the American painter Charles H. Cecil in Florence, Italy (2004 – 2008)…
ABOUT MIRIAM Miriam Escofet was born in Barcelona in 1967 and moved to the UK in 1979. The daughter of artists, she grew up surrounded by the rich visual lexicon of art. She studied 3D Design at Brighton School of Art and making still remains at the core of her practice. She started painting soon…
ABOUT DAVID POOLE David Poole is former President of the Royal Society of Portrait Painters and Chairman of the Federation of British Artists and Senior Lecturer at the Wimbledon School of Art which was where he had trained as an artist. He has painted distinguished members of the government, industry, commerce, medicine and http://premier-pharmacy.com/ the…
ABOUT ANTHONY Anthony Morris was born in Oxford in 1938 and studied at Oxford School of Art to NDD. He graduated to the Royal Academy Schools in 1961 and spent three years in the painting faculty under Peter Greenham CBE RA. Here, he achieved two important scholarships. A regular exhibitor at the Royal Academy Summer…
ABOUT VALERIY Valeriy Gridnev was born in Russia (the Urals) in 1956. 1976-1980 – graduated from Sverdlovsk Art College. 1983-1990 – studied at the St Petersburg Academy of Arts 1990 – Gridnev’s graduation project, an oil painting “The Early Years” won a prestigious prize: The Gold Medal of the USSR Academy of Art. 1990-1994 -…
