Susan Bacon
Susan Bacon trained as a sculptor at The City and Guilds School of Art, and subsequently studied drawing at Royal Academy, where she won The British Institution Prize for Sculpture. She now works on private commissions from her studio in Norfolk.
Jeanette Barnes
Jeanette Barnes studied fine art at Liverpool Polytechnic and at the RA Schools as well as Printmaking at the Royal College of Art and began to develop large drawings concerned with the dynamism of London. Since 1990 she also taught part-time on the Royal Academy of Arts Outreach programme. She exhibits in various group shows in London and is represented in private, public and corporate collections.
Sharon Brindle
Sharon Brindle studied at Camberwell School of Arts and Crafts and has many solo shows in the UK as well as showing internationally in group exhibitions. She has been selected for numerous Portrait Awards and was shortlisted for the BP Portrait award, receiving special commendation. Sharon lives and works locally in East London.
Mark Cazalet
Mark Cazalet was born and continues to work in London. He was highly influenced by the two postgraduate scholarships he held in Paris and India, accounting for his wide range of media from printed books to engraved glass, tapestry and murals. Drawing is very much the key to his principle practice as a painter and printmaker. Travel to West Africa and the Middle East have provided recent inspiration as well as the streets of London. He currently teaches at West Dean College and University of West England, Bristol.
Marcus Cornish gained a first class honours degree in Sculpture from Camberwell School of Art followed by an MA from the Royal College of Art. In 1993 Marcus Cornish was elected a member of the Royal Society of British Sculptors. Cornish won a scholarship to India to study the work of Ayanar Potter Priests and Henry Moore scholarships to pursue ceramic art. He was artist-in-residence at the Museum of London in 2005 – 2006 and at an Ibstock brick factory for a year. He was also invited to be official tour artist on a diplomatic tour to Eastern Europe with HRH The Prince of Wales and as tour artist with the British Army in Kosovo. Cornish’s work has been recognised in a number of awards both nationally and internationally and covered in The Times, Independent and Sculpture Magazines.
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Johnny Dewe Mathews
Johnny Dewe Mathews is fascinated with the visual complexity of the crowd - figures seen in relation to one another and the space they occupy. Since the early 1980’s he has drawn extensively in restaurant kitchens, jazz clubs, concert halls and film sets. He has worked in Southern Europe, India, Indonesia, Brazil and the USA.
Liza Dimbleby
Liza Dimbleby is an artist and writer who has lived in Moscow, Glasgow and London and has been drawing in all of these cities, by day and night, over the past twenty years. She has published a book by Firework on walking and drawing in Moscow, London and Glasgow called I Live Here Now. She exhibits regularly in Scotland and London.
Ann Dowker
Ann Dowker is a painter, draughtsman and printmaker. She has taught at Chelsea School of Art and the Byam Shaw School of Art for 10 years, is a freelance tutor at the National Gallery and has tutored at The Prince’s Drawing School since it was founded in 2000. She printed for many years for and with Leon Kossoff and was involved in the curating of his show at the National Gallery. Ann has exhibited with Theo Waddington, Angela Flowers , Art Space Gallery and been in many mixed shows. She now works between London and Egypt.
George Donald
George Donald is a painter and printmaker whose world travels have given him an international reputation. He trained at Edinburgh College of Art in the sixties before going to Hornsey College of Art, London - at that time a centre for new thinking and radical ideas in visual education. Subsequently he took a postgraduate Masters degree at Edinburgh University, examining the theory that underlies the practice of teaching art. He has been visiting professor in France, China, Japan and the United Arab Emirates, and inaugurated Master classes at Miro's print workshops, in Palma de Mallorca. He has worked with the British Council in Korea and India and studied papermaking in USA with a Scottish Art Council scholarship. His work can be seen in public and private collections in UK and abroad, including the V&A, London, Aberdeen Art Gallery, CAC Edinburgh, Miro Foundation, Spain, University of Edinburgh, Leeds City Council, University of Central Florida, ICI, BBC. He exhibits regularly at the Open Eye Gallery, Edinburgh, Edinburgh Printmakers, RSA and RSW.
Robert Dukes
Robert Dukes studied at Grimsby School of Art and the Slade. He paints mostly still-lifes. In addition to solo exhibitions at Browse and Darby (2005 and 2008) he features regularly in the RA Summer Show. He also lectures at the National Gallery.
William Feaver
William Feaver, for many years the art critic for The Observer is also a painter and has been the curator of exhibitions ranging from George Cruikshank to the Tate retrospectives of Michael Andrews and Lucian Freud (subject of his most recent book), Constable (Grand Palais Paris 2003). His book 'Pitmen Painters' was recently adapted by Lee Hall for an award-laden play and he is at present organising a related exhibition in Vienna 'When We Were Young', a study of children's book illustration, did particularly well in Japan. His 'Frank Auerbach' was published in 2009.
Susannah Fiennes
Susannah Fiennes graduated from the Slade School of Fine Art in 1983 with a First Class BA Hons degree. She taught art and history of art at Dulwich College, before setting up her own class in Westminster '87-'93. She has exhibited widely, travelled for painting - most notably to China in 1993 with the BP Travel Award - and accepts commissions for portraits and landscapes. After living and painting in New York for 5 years, she now lives in South Wales and London, where she teaches her own drawing class in Notting Hill, as well as at The Prince's Drawing School.
Henry Gibbons Guy
Henry Gibbons Guy is an alumnus from the Drawing School’s postgraduate programme, having been Print Room Technician for two years, and Lead Tutor for Drawing Clubs for two years. Henry now joins the public programme faculty, teaching the new course 'Man and Beast'. He also continues to teach on the Young Artist Programme.
Paul Gopal-Chowdhury
Paul Gopal-Chowdhury studied at the Slade, was artist in residence in Cambridge, previously a Gregory Fellow in Leeds University. He taught at Chelsea School of Art and the Byam Shaw School of Art for 12 years. He has exhibited widely and is currently represented by Art Space Gallery, London.
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.
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.
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.
Francis Hoyland
For the last thirteen months Francis Hoyland has been making etchings about St Francis. He has now reached number 27 out of 32. One set has been requested by the printroom of the British Museum. Because he is working so much with imagined figures he is hungry for information. This has enabled him to search diligently for information from the model. This search has been conducted in the company of his students and he thinks it benefits both parties. He believes that each talent is unique and that the needs of each student are different. His vocation as a teacher is to empathise with everyone. During his time as Course Director of Fine Art at Camberwell, he worked with conceptual artists, which enabled him to see his own position clearly and to respect other disciplines.
Timothy Hyman
Timothy Hyman is a painter and writer. Having trained at the Slade, he has had nine London solo exhibitions, with his latest show at Austin/Desmond in October 2009. His work is in many public collections, including Arts Council, Brisitsh Museum, and the Museum of London. He has published monographs on 'Bonnard' and 'Sienese Painting' (both Thames and Hudson) as well as on the Indian painter 'Bhupan Khakhar'. In 2001 he curated the Tate's Stanley Spencer retrospective, and collaborated on the large survey 'British Vision'at Ghent (2007-2008).
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.
Maggie Jennings
Maggie Jennings is an artist based in North London. Exuberant, colourful and vibrant, her work celebrates the energy of living things. She works with the vigour and dynamism that she perceives in the world around her to produce strong sensuous images that glow, breathe and proclaim their existence with a sense of certainty and pleasure. She has taken workshops in Namibia, Zimbabwe, Romania, and featured in “Art for Sale” for The Guardian newspaper. Maggie held a residency in computer imaging at London Print Studio: Artist in Residence, University of Westminster and received a Greek Government Scholarship, Scholarship Uni. Internationale de Santa Cruz, Canary Isles. She has work in National & International Collections. She is represented by the Rebecca Hossack Gallery, London W1.
Tarka Kings
Tarka Kings works from her studio in London, she trained at the RA Schools. Since then she has had many shows in the UK and recently finished a large scale Gouache landscape for Frank Gehrys award winning building in Dundee. All her work is painted from life.
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. 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.
Charlotte Mann is an artist known for her life-sized drawings of rooms: wall drawings and installations of rooms. She was born in London where she currently lives and works. She is an Associate Lecturer at Central St Martin's College of Art and Design, Chelsea College of Art and Design and Camberwell College of Art, for whom she also curates a film program held at the Vue Cinema Leicester Square.
Frances Mann
After reading French at Kent University Frances Mann went to Camberwell School of Art to do a BA in Textiles with painting as a subsidiary subject. She later taught drawing and the history of drawing materials in the Conservation and History of Drawing departments. After moving to Suffolk in 1990 she has mainly painted landscape, running occasional landscape painting and life drawing classes.
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."
Harriet Miller
Harriet Miller studied at St Martin’s School of Art and the RCA. She has won several awards including the Berkeley Square Gallery Award. Over the last 20 years Harriet has exhibited in London and Europe. Her teaching experience includes Reading University as a lecturer in Fine Art and De Montfort University.
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 Piano Nobile Fine Art Ltd and lives in East Anglia.
Humphrey Ocean
In 1984 Humphrey Ocean painted a portrait of Philip Larkin for the National Portrait Gallery described by Nick Hornby as ‘unanswerable’. Four years later he went to Northern Brazil with the American anthropologist Stephen Nugent and their book ‘Big Mouth: The Amazon Speaks’ was published by Fourth Estate in 1990. He was elected a Royal Academician in 2004. Exhibitions include ‘Double-Portrait’ at Tate Liverpool 1992, ‘urbasuburba’ with Jock McFadyen at The Whitworth Art Gallery 1997, ‘The Painter’s Eye’ with John Tchalenko, National Portrait Gallery 1999, ‘how’s my driving’ at Dulwich Picture Gallery 2003 and ‘Humphrey Ocean Perfectly Ordinary’ at Sidney Cooper Gallery, Canterbury Christ Church University 2009.
Andy Pankhurst
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 in London with his most recent show of paintings and drawings in November 2008. ‘"Models, set ups and ideas, normally without narrative, come about by chance and fate, of course to me inspiring and beautiful. In the attempt to manifest these sensations, my concerns are formal and analytical, always striving towards the beauty that is right."
Andrew Ratcliffe
Andrew Ratcliffe is a figurative painter, predominantly concerned with painting and drawing the figure from life. He has exhibited extensively in Britain and abroad including the National Portrait Gallery and has been a John Moores prizewinner. The first commissioned work he did was of the Prince of Wales, and he has done several more of him over the years. He has work in many private and public collections around the world. Combining painting with being a professional musician, he has collaborated on numerous combined arts projects with dancers, musicians and performing artists. He has worked as artist in residence in schools, colleges, galleries, libraries and other community spaces throughout the country. Andrew lives in Cumbria with his wife and two children.
Martin Shortis
In addition to teaching, Martin Shortis is in charge of The Prince's Drawing Schools etching studio. He studied at the Ruskin and RA Schools. He concentrated on making large commissioned drawings working on the spot. He has taught since 1992 and continues to draw outside and around London.
Ivy Smith
Ivy Smith studied at Chelsea and Royal Academy Schools (RA Gold Medal). 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 Pediatrics 2000, painting for East Belfast Community Hospital 2005, Salisbury District Hospital 2006. Her solo exhibition 'Drawings for Paintings' was shown at the Cut, Halesworth in 2006 and the Prince's Drawing School gallery in 2007. In 2010 two of her drawings were included in the exhibition 'Identity' at the Wellcome Collection, London.
Sophie de Stempel
Sophie de Stempel studied painting at the City and Guild School of Art followed by eight years working for Lucien Freud. She has exhibited at the Albemarle Gallery with Pippa Houldsworth and also Rebecca Hossack. She has been in mixed shows curated at the Sigmund Freud Museum. She works from life, drawings and memory, often all in one picture to try and bring about something imaginative and surprising . She has lived in France and Spain as well as four years in Morroco, painting.
Glenn Sujo
Glenn Sujo has taught in art colleges and universities in Britain, US and Israel, since 1976 and, more recently, as Convenor of the Drawing Symposium and ‘mind- spirit-body-matter: drawn to the human’ workshops at Kettle’s Yard, University of Cambridge. Sujo has contributed to the recovery of drawing language in art polemics and in higher education. As Paul Mellon Research Fellow in 1993-4 he was author and curator of Drawing on these Shores, A View of British Drawing and its Affinities (national tour). The work of memory and the imagination in internment are the subjects of his book Legacies of Silence: The Visual Arts and Holocaust Memory, (Imperial War Museum, 2001) and doctoral dissertation Disseminating Memory: Lines Across an Abyss (Courtauld Institute, 2009). Since his first solo exhibition in Britain, Histories (Arnolfini, Bristol; Institute of Contemporary Arts, London; MOMA, Oxford), Sujo has exhibited widely. His works have been acquired by The British Museum, Victoria & Albert Museum, Fitzwilliam Museum, Cecil Higgins Art Gallery; Metropolitan Museum of Art and Jewish Museum, New York; Israel Museum, Jerusalem; Tel Aviv Museum of Art; Galería Nacional and Museo de Bellas Artes, Caracas.
Charlotte Verity
Charlotte Verity studied at the Slade from 1973-77 under William Coldstream, Lawrence Gowing, Patrick George, Noel Forster and Euan Uglow amongst others. She has had several solo shows with Anne Berthoud (1984 1988 1990) and more recently with Browse and Darby (1998 2002 2007). She has been included in many group exhibtions including The Whitechapel Open, The Hayward Annual, John Moores, The Royal Academy Summer Exhibition and at the LA Louver Gallery in California. Her work is in many private and corporate collections. She has been teaching at The Prince's Drawing School since 2001. For 2010 Charlotte is the Artist in Residence at The Garden Museum, London.
Greg Ward
Greg Ward studied at the Byam Shaw School of Art and at the Slade. As a student and for a long time after leaving art school he painted solely from direct observation, but in recent years has been more concerned with making "constructed" paintings. He continues to work from life which informs all his work.
Susan Wilson
Susan Wilson grew up in the mountain foothills of New Zealand's South Island and roamed around Peru, Bolivia and Ecuador in buses and trucks as a young woman. "In 1976 I hitchhiked around Spain for three months. To this I owe my beginnings as a painter and my continuing love of Hispanic art. Camberwell and Royal Academy Schools educated me and I was a Fellow of Painting at Cheltenham and Gloucester College of Art and Technology in 1986. She held the Richard Ford Award to Spain Madrid (1986), Italian Govt Borso di Studio to Venice & the Veneto (1985), and the Abbey Award British School at Rome (1993). Susan taught at Chelsea School of Art and Wolverhampton Polytechnic in the 1990's. She illustrated Katherine Mansfield's Short Stories (Folio Society 2000) with a subsequent touring exhibition in 2003." Susan is represented by Browse and Darby has work in public collections in UK and NZ.
Duncan Wood
Duncan Wood has taught fine art for over fifteen years at institutions including, The University of London and The Royal Academy Schools. His paintings are homage's to particular aspects of the first-hand visible world of landscape, still life and the figure, and sometimes, as with his recent and ongoing ' Trunk Series ', a mixture of all three genre. They also contain layers of past visual memory. “The act of painting for me, is a patient and persistent study of the real, as it is given to the senses, and thence to the intellect ”
Recent exhibitions include, ' Atlantic ',Fosterart Ltd, in association with The Howard-Scott Gallery, New York, 2004; Three-Man exhibition, Browse & Darby, 2007; Buxton Art Gallery, 2008; The Threadneedle Prize, 2008. He lives and works in London and Derbyshire and is represented by Browse & Darby.
