Paul Brason PPRP

A finalist in the National Portrait Gallery’s Annual Portrait Awards from 1980 to 1993, Paul was elected to the Royal Society of Portrait Painters in 1994, winning the Ondaatje Award for Portraiture in 1998 and going on to become the society’s president in 1999.

Born in 1952, he grew up in a village in the Weald of Kent. ‘With both parents having trained as artists, drawing was a natural thing to do and so it was no surprise that I eventually found myself at Camberwell Art School’. In an extensive career he has painted many notable sitters, including Margaret Thatcher, Prince Philip at 90 and Sir Roy Strong. His work can be seen in the National Portrait Gallery, the Royal Collection Windsor and the Museums and Galleries Commission, as well as many Oxford and Cambridge colleges.

He lives and works at his Wiltshire studio in the countryside near Bath.

Image: Paul Brason PPRP, Sir Eric Anderson, Provost of Eton College