File - Heatherley School of Fine Art

GRAEME WILCOX
Frank
Oil on canvas
20 x 20 inches
(frontcover)
PAUL WRIGHT
Bulldog Oil on canvas
28 x 24 inches (back cover)
15 New Cavendish St, London, W1G 9UB Tel: +44 (0)207 935 3595 Email: enquiries@thompsonsgallery.co.uk
175 High Street, Aldeburgh, Suffolk. IP15 5AN Tel: +44 (0)1728 453 743
Email: john@thompsonsgallery.co.uk
www.thompsonsgallery.co.uk
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THE CONTEMPORARY
PORTRAIT
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JON BARRETT
Self Portrait (In Broken Mirror)
Oil on canvas 18 x 30 inches
THE CONTEMPORARY
PORTRAIT
15th October - 1st November 2015
15 New Cavendish St
London, W1G 9UB
Tel: +44 (0)207 935 3595
Email: enquiries@thompsonsgallery.co.uk
www.thompsonsgallery.co.uk
Private View: Wednesday 14th October, 6 - 8pm
RSVP to enquiries@thompsonsgallery.co.uk
The complete exhibition can be viewed online at
www.thompsonsgallery.co.uk
Monday to Friday: 10:00 - 18:00
Saturday: 10:30 - 17:30
Sunday: Closed
All paintings are for sale upon receipt of the catalogue.
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ALDO BALDING
THOMPSON’S GALLERY are proud to announce The Contemporary Portrait, an exhibition of the
most promising artists working within portraiture today. Through a mixture of established and emergent talent, this
exhibition explores a vast variety of approaches to an age-old practice. The wide range of media spans from the
captivating detail of hyperrealism to the emotive brushstrokes of neo-expressionism.
Jon Barrett (page 1) was born in Oxford and studied Fine Art at The Arts University Bournemouth. Living in
Maidenhead, bordering Stanley Spencer’s Cookham, he had a brief career as a sign-maker before working for
Thompson’s Galleries where he continues to be part of their team. He now turns his efforts to the other side
of the gallery where his paintings illustrate a technique that encompasses both representational and abstract
modes of picture making. Incorporating an aesthetic of broken imagery, his paintings exploit an accumulation
of lost content whilst remaining representational.
JON BARRETT Self Portrait (In Broken Mirror) Oil on canvas 18 x 30 inches (see page 1)
Aldo Balding was born and raised in the United Kingdom and currently lives in the South of France. He
started off his career as an illustrator before moving to France to become a full-time artist. His works often
depict figures in open-ended narratives, allowing the viewer to construct the story for themselves. Balding has
exhibited his work in the BP Portrait Show, The Royal Society of Portrait Painters, and taken first prize in the
NSE Exhibition (2003) and Artist International (2002). Balding is represented by a number of galleries around
the world, such as the United Kingdom, United States of America, France and South Africa.
ALDO BALDING Alban Trilogy Oil on canvas 39 x 39 inches (right)
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HENRIETTA GRAHAM
HENRIETTA GRAHAM
Dan Doherty at Duck and Waffle Oil on canvas 29 x 40 inches
Henrietta Graham trained at Parsons School of Art in Paris and The Thomas Heatherly School of Fine Art in
London and has been successfully exhibiting and selling internationally for the past 25 years. A well-established
portrait artist, her depiction of James Martin was featured at the National Gallery for the BP Portrait Award. She
has also worked extensively with Gordon Ramsay and other notable figures of the British culinary renaissance,
with paintings gracing the walls and menus of establishments such as the Ramsay’s flagship restaurant on Royal
Hospital Road.
HENRIETTA GRAHAM
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Atul Kochar at Benares Oil on canvas 40 x 29 inches
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PAUL WRIGHT
EDWARD HASLAM
Paul Wright has spent the last decade developing
a language of painting through which he seeks to
capture a vitality beyond the establishment of a
mere ‘likeness’ to the subject. As an artist, Paul
Wright appreciates the importance of the individual
being recognisable, the subjects are glimpsed in
the painting rather than exposed, their inner selves
hinted at but ultimately inscrutable. Wright was
born in Leicester and completed his foundational
studies at Loughborough College of Art and Design.
He then went to complete a four-year degree at
the Falmouth School of Art. He has twice been
shortlisted in the BP Portrait Award, most recently
in 2014’. He has exhibited all over Europe and the
Americas, and has works in collections including
Prudential, Standard Chartered Bank, Accenture
and Smith & Williams..
EDWARD HASLAM
Self portrait Oil 47 x 31 inches
London based artist Ed Haslam holds a degree in History of Art from the University of Manchester. In 2012 Haslam took part in the
Free Painters and Sculptors exhibition at La Galleria Pall Mall and in 2013 he exhibited with the Royal Society of Portrait Painters
and twice with Thompson’s Gallery in the Annual and Group Exhibitions. Haslam’s style is influenced by the legacies of Francis
Bacon and Lucien Freud. His works seek to express the disconnection between the physical reality of life and the heightened reality
PAUL WRIGHT
of human experience.
The Walker Oil on canvas 25 x 24 inches
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GRAEME WILCOX
ALLAN RAMSAY
Scottish painter Allan Ramsay trained at
Glasgow School of Art and Art Student’s
League in New York. He won first prize
in the John Player Portrait Awards at the
National Portrait Gallery in 1988. Since
then, Ramsay has shown regularly with the
Royal Academy Summer Exhibition and the
Royal Society of Portrait Painters at Mall
Galleries. Ramsay’s work is widely collected
by major institutions such as the University
of Oxford, University of Cambridge, The
National Portrait Gallery, and the City of
Edinburgh.
Graeme Wilcox graduated from Glasgow
School of Art in 1993 with honours in Fine
Art. Since his training Wilcox has gone on to
work in WASPS studios in Glasgow’s East End,
exhibiting regularly in London and throughout
the UK. Recent larger works depict people
travelling through half-remembered spaces,
situations and scenes both real and imagined,
communicating what the artist calls ‘an
attempt to balance asense of movement with a
sense of stillness’. Lately Wilcox has undertaken
two large portrait commissions, these renewing
GRAEME WILCOX
The Diplomat
his interest in portraiture and leading to an
Oil on canvas
ongoing series of friends and acquaintances.
26 x 30 inches
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ALLAN RAMSAY
Study for a Portrait Oil on canvas 16 x 12 inches
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LUCA INDRACCOLO
NIGGY DOWLER
Luca Indraccolo left his birthplace of Naples,
Italy to begin a career in advertising. This
15-year pursuit took him from Germany to New
York, and eventually to London. He gave up a
position as creative director for Saatchi & Saatchi
London to embark upon a new path in painting.
Having started his artistic training in New York,
Indraccolo moved first to Florence and then
London to develop his painting ability. Now a
full time artist, Indraccolo exhibits widely across
London, with Mall Galleries’ Royal Society of Oil
Painters, Bankside, T5 Gallery, and Netil 000.
NIGGY DOWLER Regrets Oil on canvas 18 x 18 inches
NIGGY DOWLER Regold Oil on canvas 18 x 14 inches
Nicolette (Niggy) Dowler brings a fresh, immediate approach to her work, being self-taught with occasional spells in Florence.
Her time in Italy inspired an interest in classical representation, tied in with notes of surrealism. Dowler has recently emerged as a
painter, seeing success in Affordable Art Fairs at Bristol, Hampstead and Battersea, as well as executing a constant flow of portrait
commissions.
LUCA INDRACCOLO Ella Oil on canvas 18 x 13 inches
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JENNIFER ANDERSON
ALAN COULSON
Alan Coulson was born in Leeds in 1977, and
currently lives and works in West Yorkshire.
He specialises in portraiture and exhibits
regularly in London, most notably at the
annual exhibitions of the Royal Society
of Portrait Painters and the prestigious
BP Portrait Award at the National Gallery.
Coulson
has
produced
commissioned
work for clients including New York Times
Magazine, The Sunday Times, Carlton Books,
The Chronicle Review and Club Wembley.
He also has works in private collections
worldwide and is represented by Anthony
Brunelli Fine Arts NY.
JENNIFER ANDERSON
Cherished Oil on copper 8 x 8 inches
JENNIFER ANDERSON
The Waiting Game Oil on copper 16 x 12 inches
Jennifer Anderson was born in Glasgow and grew up just outside the city in rural Stirlingshire. She attended Duncan of Jordanstone
College of Art, Dundee, graduating in 1997 with a first class honours degree in fine art painting at the age of 21. Since then she has
returned to Glasgow and continues to live and work in the city’s West End. She has exhibited widely throughout the UK and has
also shown work internationally in New York, Singapore, Zurich and Toronto. Anderson is regularly selected for the BP Portrait Award
and has also been invited to exhibit in the main collection at the National Portrait Gallery, London.
ALAN COULSON Janis Oil on wood 40 x 28 inches
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STEPHANIE REW
CAROL PEACE
STEPHANIE REW
Rapture
Oil on canvas 22 x 18 inches
STEPHANIE REW
The Silver Crane II
Oil on canvas
39 x 16 inches (right)
CAROL PEACE Self Portrait Looking Forward Oil on paper 9 x 11 inches
Scottish Artist Stephanie Rew studied at Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art
Carol Peace, British sculptor and painter, was born in April 1970. She graduated with Honors in Fine Art Sculpture
from 1990-1994. Exhibiting and gallery work took Rew from home in Brighton, to
from Winchester School of Art in 1992. Peace has also studied at the Prince’s Drawing School (2001-2002), after
London, finally settling back in Edinburgh in 2002. She now lives with her husband
which she co-founded the Bristol Drawing School in 2007. In 2011 Peace became a Patron of the RWA, Bristol’s
and two children in the Leith Shore area, painting full time. Stephanie’s interest in
first art gallery. Shortly after she completed a 6-month SF residency in Barcelona, Spain. Peace continues to
the discipline and drama of dance are reflected in her compelling rendering of the
create from her studio in Bristol, with many commissions for large-scale projects.
dancer’s form, often draped in stage costume.
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ELAINE SPEIRS
CARL MELEGARI
Elaine Spiers was born in Johannesburg and moved
to the West Coast of Scotland as a young child.
She studied at Edinburgh College of Art and the
Slade School of Fine Art in London. She returned
to South Africa in 2006 and then came back home
in 2009 with her three daughters. Over the last
four years Elaine has re-established herself as a
painter. She regularly exhibits at the RSA, with
VAS and the SSA. Recently she exhibited at the
Mall Galleries in London. Awards have included
the Glasgow Club Award (2012), the Caron
Keating Memorial Award, Mall Galleries, London.
She was shortlisted for the National Open Art
Competition and the Threadneedle Painting
Prize (2014).
ELAINE SPEIRS Lost Sleep Oil and acrylic on board 36 x 30 inches
Carl Melegari was born to Italian parentage in North Wales. His contemporary approach to painting explores both the human form
and urban landscape. Melegari’s works are rich in palette and texture, as the artist draws from the colourist style of Morandi and
the sculptural influence of Manuel Neri. Melegari has exhibited in Bristol with the Royal West of England Academy, Le Salon des
Nations in Paris, and in Italy at Mostra di Pittura di San Bonifacio. He has also gained great recognition from exposure in art fairs
such as London Art Fair and Art Toronto.
CARL MELEGARI
Babajide Oil on canvas 39 x 31 inches
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KEMI ONABULE
CHRIS STEVENS
Chris Stevens graduated from
the University of Reading with
a Fine Art degree in 1978, after
which he went on to become
an established figurative painter
exhibiting regularly in London
and further afield. He has been
a prize winner in the BP Portrait
Award, 50 Over 50, and the
recent Painted Faces exhibition
organised by the Saatchi Gallery.
Stevens has enjoyed residencies
at Sunderland Football Club
and Birmingham International
Airport, as well as working
with institutions including the
Victoria
&
Albert
Museum,
The National Gallery of Wales,
Unilever,
Galerija
Portreta,
Bosnia & Herzegovina, and many
private collections in the UK,
KEMI ONABULE Dad Oil on canvas 22 x 18 inches
South Africa, USA and Europe.
Kemi Onabule is a 20-year-old British artist of Nigerian and Greek
descent. Home-educated until the age of 11, her artistic abilities were
allowed to grow in a non-institutional setting. Kemi first captured our
attention at the 2014 Sky Portrait Award as the youngest artist in the
pool of selected talent. Onabule specialises in oil portraiture centred on
singular portraits of family and friends. She is currently completing her
second year of training at the Wimbledon College of Art.
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CHRIS STEVENS Herbert
Oil on canvas 20 x 16 inches
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RICHARD TWOSE
After taking second prize in the BP Portrait Award at the
National Gallery in 2014, Richard Twose became a full-time
artist. Since then he has been part of numerous gallery shows
and undertaken commissions, and given interviews with CNN’s
‘One To Watch’ programme. Twose has exhibited widely across
the UK, showing in ‘20/21’ at the Royal College of Art, the 2014
BP Portrait Award, View Gallery in Bristol, and Affordable Art Fair
Hampstead and Battersea.
RICHARD TWOSE Balance Oil on canvas 51 x 28 inches
RICHARD TWOSE Nell and a Goose Oil on canvas 22 x 18 inches (right)
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SELENA MOWAT
SARAH JANE MOON
New Zealand national Sarah Jane Moon
has lived in Japan, Malaysia, Australia and
the UK working in education and the arts.
She first caught our eye in an exhibition
of celebrated portrait painters at the Mall
Galleries. Specialising in portraiture and
figurative painting, Moon has garnered
honours such as the Bulldog Bursary of the
Royal Society of Portrait Painters, the New
English Art Club Charitable Trust Award
and an RP commendation for her painting
ability. Moon is currently working both on
commissions and her own projects, as well
as producing a book that will profile leading
contemporary portrait painters in Britain. SELENA MOWAT
Self Portrait Oil on wood 10 x 12 inches
Selena Mowat was born in the Scottish Highlands in 1977 to a Malaysian mother and Scottish father. She studied Fine Arts at
the University of Dundee, Scotland, afterward teaching drawing and painting there for six years. Mowat has won many honours
including the Irish Portrait of the Year and Sky Arts Portrait Artist of the Year, both in 2013. Today she lives and works in Rudolstadt,
exhibiting internationally and with projects in the UK, Italy and France.
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Sarah Jane Moon Tigana + Egle Oil on canvas 40 x 62 inches
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ROBIN PUPLETT
ROBIN PUPLETT
ROBIN PUPLETT
Butcher Oil on canvas 32 x 32 inches
Boat Builder Oil on canvas 32 x 32 inches
Robin Puplett has been painting since childhood but only in the last few years has he turned his lifelong passion into a full-time
career as an artist. Educated in both fine art and graphic design, his preferred medium is acrylic on canvas. Although originally from
London, Puplett has spent many years abroad and now lives and works in North Yorkshire with his wife and two children. Robin’s
work is inspired by his local surroundings and the people he encounters, exploring modes of composition, mood and storytelling.
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