Sophie de Stempel

Robert Dukes

Paul Gopal-Chowdhury

Oona Grimes

Oona Grimes lives and works in London. She studied at Norwich School of Art 1982–86 Fine Art BA Hons and Slade School of Fine Art 1986–88 Higher Diploma. Her work is in collections including New York Public Library, USA, Manchester Metropolitan, University College London Strang Collection, The Governing Body of Macau, Lineker College Oxford University and the Victoria & Albert Museum, London. Recent exhibitions include Celeste Art Prize, London 2006, Outdoors at Danielle Arnaud Gallery, 2006 Peche a la Ligne, Brittany, 2006 Artfutures, Bloomberg 2005, Keeping Up Appearances: London College of Communications, 2005 and the Jerwood Drawing Prize: 2002, 2005.

Timothy Hyman

John Lessore

John Lessore was born in London in 1939 and grew up in a family of practising artists. He went to the Slade under Coldstream, 1957 to 1961, and then to Italy on an Abbey Minor travelling scholarship. His chief teachers were his mother, who was the painter Helen Lessore, and Tom Monnington. He was a co-founder of The Prince’s Drawing School in 2000, has been a trustee of the National Gallery, London, since 2003 and his most recent exhibition was at the Annandale Galleries, Sydney, Australia, in October. He taught from 1965 to 1999 at the Royal Academy Schools and from 1978 to 1986 he co-ran the Life Room at Norwich School of Art with John Wonnacott. He has taught at The Prince’s Drawing School since it started. His work is in many private and public (Tate, British Museum, Royal Academy etc) collections. Major recent commissions include the double portrait of Jeremy Dixon and Edward Jones and the group portrait of Six Paralympic Athletes, both in the National Portrait Gallery. He lives and works in London, East Anglia and France. www.johnlessore.com

Daniel Miller

At art school we students asked ourselves why we draw the model, anonymous as they appear to be. I left the Slade in 1981. Straightaway I made a trip, across the United States, doing various jobs. Picture-making became the guide for what to do next. Months later in London I found a position along with other young artists making public murals. Working outside and the scale of things in the U.S. formed an interest in making big pictures. We did a project in a corridor at University College Hospital on which almost any application of paint would’ve been a decoration. The customary styles had become formulaic. I made drawings of the uniformed workers passing through but I felt ill-equipped to decorate the communicating spaces around hospital workers as I would have been decorating computers in a bank. However the differences between people, these were more interesting as a subject to paint, than anything else. People are better at using paint than ever before. They can ‘do’ a Barnett Newman, as Frank Sinatra did in his dotage, just as they can graduate from courses on how Velasquez painted. There are more art-material systems than ever before. Meanwhile I find traditional subjects and areas of devotion have shifted faster than ever.

Thomas Newbolt

Thomas Newbolt, who was born in 1951 and studied at Camberwell, has been painting, exhibiting (in Britain and the USA) and teaching for many years. He has lived in Italy and the USA. He exhibits at Browse and Darby and lives in East Anglia. www.thomasnewbolt.com

Andy Pankhurst

Studied and taught at the Slade School of Fine Art. A figurative painter with work represented in various public, corporate and private collections and museums in the UK and USA. Exhibits with Browse & Darby, London.

Pip Seymour

Thomas Gosebruch

Thomas Gosebruch was born in 1951, he studied painting at Hochschule fuer Bildende Kunst Hamburg and the RCA London, printmaking at the Hochschule fuer bildende Kuenste Braunschweig (Meisterschueler) and ceramics (diploma) at City Lit London. He works with drawing and sculpture. Two series of his etchings are in the collections of the British Museum, the Victoria & Albert and several German museums. His most recent one man show was at Galerie Kleindienst, Leipzig 2004. Previous teaching posts have been at Newcastle University, Winchester School of Art and University of Nigeria, Nsukka. He is currently teaching at The National Gallery, The Courtauld Institute of Art and City Lit.

Lawrence Jenkins

Lawrence Jenkins is a painter, etcher and master printer working in Kent and northern France. Lawrence sees drawing and painting as a way of permanently preserving precious visual experience. He has work in Royal Collections and his many commissions record events and places. Lawrence taught etching at the Royal Academy for many years and developed their etching facility. Since 1985 he has had his own etching studio at Seal Chart in Kent where he prints editions for other artists and works on his painting and prints. He is currently developing an etching studio in France where he spends his summer building, painting, printing, and gardening. www.lawrencejenkins.co.uk

Jeanette Barnes

Jeanette Barnes studied fine art at Liverpool Polytechnic and Royal Academy Schools and Printmaking at Royal College of Art. She exhibits in various group shows in London and is represented in private, public and corporate collections.

Ivy Smith

Ivy Smith studied at Chelsea and Royal Academy Schools (RA Gold Medal). Extensive teaching experience from workshops to BA and MA course. She has taught at The Prince’s Drawing School since 2001. She has work in many public collections including the National Portrait Gallery, Graves Art Gallery Sheffield, Norwich Castle Museum. Awards include winner: John Player Portrait Award 1986, Arts Council Grants for the Arts 2005. Public commissions include Sir Richard and Sir David Attenborough for National Portrait Gallery 1987, Jerwood Commission for two paintings for Royal College of Paediatrics 2000, painting for East Belfast Community Hospital 2005, Salisbury District Hospital 2006.

Julie Held

Julie Held studied at Camberwell and the Royal Academy Schools. She has exhibited in group exhibitions at the The Royal Academy Summer Exhibition London, The London Group Annual Exhibition, London; and The Jerwood Drawing Prize at Flowers Central, London and the Barbican, London as well as internationally including The Frank Kafka Gallery, Prague. Her work is held by a number of public collections including Nuffield College, Oxford University, England, Ben Uri Art Society Collection, London and New Hall, Cambridge. Julie is an elected member at the RWS, The London Group and The Brandler Prize. For more information please visit www.julieheld.com

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