Biography

Biography

1939 Born in London
1957-61 Studied at the Slade School of Fine Art
1961 Abbey Minor Travelling Scholarship to Italy
1965-99 Taught at the Royal Acacemy Schools
1978-86 Taught at the Norwich School of Art
1982 Selector Serpentine Summer Show
1987 Painter in residence at Bryan Shaw School of Art
1991 Korn Ferry International Award, Nomination and joint first prizewinner
1994 The Jerwood Prize, Nomination
1996-97 Andersen Consulting Fine Art Commission
1999 Portrait Commission of Jeremy Dixon and Edward Jones
2001- Teaching at the Prince's Drawing School (formerly The Prince's Foundation)
2002-04 Portrait Commission of six members of the British Paralympic Team
2003-11 Artist Trustee of the National Gallery, London
2006 The Lynn Painter-Stainers' Competition, First Prize and Gold Medal
  Lives and works in London, East Anglia and France
2011- Member Arts Committee, Barts Hospital, London
2012 Selector, Norwich Castle Open Art Show

Selected Solo Exhibitions

1965 Beaux Arts Gallery, London
1969 Ashgate Gallery, Farnham
1971 New Art Centre, London
1981 Theo Waddington, London
1983 Stoppenbach & Delestre, London
1985 Stoppenbach & Delestre, London
1986 The Sternberg Centre for Judaism, London
1990 Nigel Greenwood Gallery, London
1994 Theo Waddington & Robert Stoppenbach, London
1995 Solomon Gallery, Dublin
1997 Theo Waddington Fine Art, London
  Miriam Shiell Fine Art, Toronto
1999 Wolsey Art Gallery, Christchurch Mansion, Ipswitch
  National Portrait Gallery, London
2000 Ranger's House, London
2002 Berkeley Square Gallery in association with Gillian Jason Modern & Contemporary Art
2004 Annely Juda Fine Art, London
  Chappel Galleries, Colchester
2005 Annandale Galleries, Sydney, Australia - Text and images from the catalogue
2009 70th Birthday Exhibition, Prince's Drawing School, London

Selected Group Exhibitions

1967 English Painting 1951-67, Norwich Castle Museum
1968 Helen Lessore and the Beaux Arts Gallery, Marlborough Fine Art, London
1976 The Human Clay, Hayward Gallery, London, and tour
  (Arts Council of Great Britain touring exhibition)
1977 The Greater London Picture Show, London
1978 The Spirit of London Exhibition, London (Prizewinner)
1980 Pictures for an Exhibition, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London
1981 Drawings and Watercolours by 13 British Artists,
  Marlborough Fine Art, London
1982 The John Moores Liverpool Exhibition 13, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool, (Prizewinner)
  Hayward Annual, Hayward Gallery, London
1983-84 Interiors, Annel Berthoud Gallery, London
1984 The Hard-Won Image, Tate Gallery, London
1984-85 The Proper Study: Contemporary Figurative Paintings from Britain,
  British Council tour, New Delhi and Bombay
1985 A Singular Vision, Royal Albert Memorial Museum and Art Gallery, Exeter, and tour
1985-86 In their Circumstances, Lincoln Art Gallery, and tour
Rocks and Flesh, Norwich School of Art Gallery, Norwich, and tour
1986 Seven British Artists: Figure and Landscape, Edward Totah Gallery, London
  The Robin Campbell Memorial Exhibition, Smiths Galleries, London
  American/European Painting and Sculpture, L.A. Louver, Venice , California
1987 Image in Line, Bernard Jacobson Gallery, New York
  Flowers, Anne Berthoud Gallery, London
1987-88 British Figurative Painting: A Matter of Paint, Pamela Auchincloss Gallery, Santa Barbara California and tour
1987-89 The Experience of Landscape, (Arts Council of Great Britain) Derby Art Gallery, and tour
1988 A Personal Choice, selected by Jeffrey Camp, Nigel Greenwood Gallery, London
  The British Picture, L.A. Louver, Venice, California
1988-90 Past and Present (Arts Council of Great Britain)
  Manchester City Art Gallery and tour
1989 The School of London: Works on Paper, Odette Gilbert Gallery, London
  Salute to Turner, The National Trust's Foundation for Art, Thos. Agnew & Sons, London
1990 The Pursuit of the Real: British Figurative Painting from Sickert to Bacon, Manchester City Art Gallery,
  Barbican Art Gallery, London, and Glasgow City Art Gallery
  The Discerning Eye, Mall Galleries, London
1991 Critic's Choice, Giles Auty, Beaux Arts, Bath
  Works on Paper, Nigel Greenwood Gallery, London
  Cabinet Paintings, Gillian Jason Gallery, London, and tour
1993 Contemporary British Portraits, Real & Imagined, Gillian Jason Gallery
  Shared Exhibition with Michael Fell, Comteroux, Perpignan,
1993-94 Drawings on these Shores, Harris Museum and Art Gallery, Preston, and tour
1994 The Wilkie Gift, Tate Gallery, London
1995 Theo Waddington Fine Art, London
1996 Theo Waddington Fine Art, London
1997 British Figurative Art, Flowers East, London
1999 Landscape and The Imagination, The Prince of Wales’s Institute of Architecture, London
2000-01 The School of London and Their Friends: The collection of Elaine and Melvin Merians.
  Yale Centre for British Art and Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase, New York
2002 Small is Beautiful, Flowers East, London
2003 Different Landscapes, Artspace Gallery, London
2004 Visions of London, Artspace Gallery, London
2005 The Discerning Eye, Mall Galleries, London
2006 The Lynn Painter-Stainers' Prize, Painters' Hall, London
  Yale Centre for British Art and Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase, New York
2008 Mediterraneo: "a Sea that Unites", Italian Cultural Institute, London
2008-09 Small is beautiful, Flowers East, London
2010-11 Another Face, Works from the Arts Council Collection, Hatton Gallery, Newcastle upon Tyne
2011 The London Art Fair, Thomas Williams

Public Collections

Accenture, London
Arthur Andersen, London
Arts Council of Great Britain, London
Astrup Fearnley Museum, Oslo
Ben Uri Art Society, London
British Council, London
British Museum
Contemporary Art Society
Eastern Arts Association
Government Art Collection
Guildhall Art Gallery, London
Leicestershire Education Committee
Lethbridge University, Alberta, Canada
McLean Museum and Art Gallery, Greenock, Scotland
Manchester City Art Gallery
National Portrait Gallery, London
Newport Art Gallery, Wales
Norwich Castle Museum
Rationalist Press Association, London
Royal Academy of Arts, London
Royal Albert Memorial Museum & Art Gallery, Exeter
Sternberg Centre for Judaism, London
Swindon Museum & Art Gallery
Tate Gallery, London
Westminster Hospital, London
Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh