Toby Wiggins RP

Toby Wiggins studied at the Royal Academy Schools. He has exhibited at the Royal Academy Summer Show, BP Portrait Award, Discerning Eye, Jerwood Drawing Prize and the Holburne Portrait Prize, Bath.
Toby won the Prince of Wales Drawing Award in 2005 and 2013, the Changing Faces Prize in 2006 and the Lynn Painter-Stainers Prize for figurative painting in 2009.
In 2006, after winning the BP Travel Award, he made portraits of the rural community of Wessex which were exhibited at the National Portrait Gallery in 2007 and subsequently Dorset County Museum.

Image: Toby Wiggins RP, Self-Portrait after GSW

'Winner of The Ondaatje Prize for Portraiture is sponsored by Sir Christopher Ondaatje CBE OC and the Ondaatje Foundation, this generous prize of £10,000 plus the Society’s Gold Medal is awarded for the most distinguished portrait of the year.

The Prize was launched in 1995 and took the form of a commission to paint H.M. The Queen, for the Society. From 1996, the Prize has taken the form of a cheque in addition to the Society’s."

RP Member Toby Wiggins was awarded the prize in 2023 for his painting, ‘Winter’s Work; Russell Woodham at rest while laying a hazel hedge in the Dorset Style’

Read more about it here and here