Collections
Holburne Museum, Bath.
Harris Museum and Art Gallery, Preston
Buckfast Abbey
St. Patricks Church, Redfield, Bristol
Ömer Koç
Trinity College, Cambridge
(Double portrait) Bowes-Lyon, St Pauls Waldenbury.
The Provincial Grand Lodge Of Bristol
Awards
(Shortlisted) Summer Exhibition 2026 Royal Academy of Arts
(Shortlisted) Portrait Award 2026 NPG
(Shortlisted) British Art Prize 2025
(WINNER) Kenneth Hodgson Memorial Award 2025 NAPA
(WINNER) Anthony J. Lester Art Critic Prize 2025
(WINNER) Bath Open Art Prize (People's Choice Award 2025)
(Shortlisted) British Art Prize 2024
(Shortlisted) Ruth Borchard Self-Portrait Prize 2021
(Longlisted) BP Portrait Award 2020
(Contestant) Sky Arts Portrait Artist of the year 2024 & 2020
(Finalist) Sunday Times Watercolour Competition 2016
(Runner-Up) Jackson's Art Prize (Oils) 2016 READ INTERVIEW
(Finalist) Artists and Illustrators Artist of the year 2011
(WINNER) Holburne Portrait Prize 2006 SEE PRIZE COMMISSION
(WINNER) BFA Best Painting Award - Royal West of England Academy of Art (RWA)
(WINNER) Excellence in Watercolour Award - RWA 2008
(Shortlisted) BP PORTRAIT AWARD 2007 - National Portrait Gallery, London
(WINNER) Consumer Intelligence Watercolour Award - RWA 2007
(WINNER) St. Cuthberts Mill Works on Paper Award - 2007
(WINNER) Peoples Choice Award - Victoria Gallery 2006
(Shortlisted) BP PORTRAIT AWARD 2004 - National Portrait Gallery, London
Exhibitions
British Art Prize 2025, OXO Gallery, London
RWA Autumn Exhibition 2025, Bristol
Bath Open Art Prize 2025, 44AD Bath
NAPA Members Exhibition 2025, Kennaway House, Sidmouth
Royal Institute of Painters in Watercolour (RI) 2025, Mall Galleries, London
British Art Prize (Finalists) 2024, Oxo Gallery, London
SUPPOSE YOU ARE NOT 2024, ISTANBUL
Portrait Artist of The Year 2024 & 2020(Sky Arts Tv Show)
Royal Society of Portrait Painters 2022, Mall Galleries, London
Ruth Borchard Self-Portrait Prize 2021 (Shortlisted Artist)
Royal West of England Academy of Art 2020
Royal West of England Academy of Art - Autumn Exhibition 2019
Royal Institute of Painters in Watercolour (RI) 2018
Sunday Times Watercolour Competition - Guildford House Gallery 2017
The Roper Gallery, Bath - 2017
Royal Society of Portrait Painters (INVITED ARTIST) 2016
Sunday Times Watercolour Competition - Mall Galleries 2016
Royal Society of British Artists - 2014
Cork Street Open - Cork Street London - 2010
National Portrait Gallery - Portrait Gala 2009
Painting Aardman - Solo Exhibition - Holburne Museum - 2008
Royal Society of Portrait Painters (INVITED ARTIST) 2008
BP Portrait Award 2007
The Singer Freidlander Sunday Times Award - 2006
National Portrait Gallery - Portrait Gala 2005
Painting Exhibition - RWA - 2005
The Singer Freidlander Sunday Times Award - 2005
Solo Exhibition - Center Space - Bristol 2004
BP Portrait Award 2004
Royal Society of Portrait Painters 2004 - 2016
The Hunting Art Prizes - 2005
RWA Open painting exhibition - 2005
The Singer Freidlander Sunday Times Award - 2004
Bath Society of Artists - 2004 to 2012
Royal West of England Academy of Art - Autumn Exhibition 1999 - 2009
Notable Sitters
Ömer Koç
Rosie Jones (Comedian and Writer)
The Right Reverend Abbot David Charlesworth O.S.B
The Right Reverend Canon Gregory Grant
PGM Jonathan Davis
Dep PGM Richard Lewis
David Haig Collum Ward MBE(PAOTY Sky Arts)
Peter Lord, CBE
Nick Park, CBE
David Sproxton, CBE
Prof. Val Gibson
Sir Simon Bowes Lyon (1st Cousin HM Queen)
Lady Caroline Bowes Lyon
Spencer Kelly (Director)
David Cox (Artist)
David Cobley RP (Artist) Sold at National Portrait Gallery Portrait Gala
Anthony Beeson (Time Team Art Historian)
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Art is a living continuum.
It does not begin with us, and it will not end with us.
An artist must first listen—to history, to tradition, to the accumulated knowledge of those who have
laboured before. The techniques, disciplines, and philosophies of the past are not constraints, but
foundations. They are evidence of what is possible when skill, patience, and insight converge. To ignore
them is not freedom; it is amnesia. At the same time, the artist must stand fully within the present. The
technologies, tools, and media of our time are not threats to art, but its natural evolution.
Every age has shaped its vision through the instruments available to it.
To reject contemporary tools is to turn away from the lived experience of the modern world. To embrace them
critically and intelligently is to speak honestly in the language of now.
The purpose of art is not novelty alone, nor tradition preserved in amber. It is to reflect the experience
of being human—socially, psychologically, spiritually—within the conditions of its time.
Art should examine the inner life as much as the outer world: memory, fear, love, alienation, joy, doubt. It
should illuminate the unseen currents of the human condition and give form to what cannot be spoken plainly.
An artist should pursue all possible skill and knowledge. Craft and concept are not opposites; they are
partners. Mastery expands freedom. The more deeply one understands form, colour, structure, technology, and
perception, the more precisely one can express a unique vision. Skill is not an end in itself, but a vessel
for meaning.
Innovation is essential, but it must grow from understanding. New possibilities should be explored with
curiosity and courage, not for the sake of disruption, but for the sake of discovery.
The greatest art of the past deserves respect not as an authority to obey, but as a summit to climb beyond.
Progress in art is not erasure—it is continuation.
Contemporary art should not exclude.
It should not narrow itself through ideology, fashion, or fear.
True progress is expansive.
The future of art lies not in the rejection of beauty, skill, narrative, or emotion, but in their
integration with new ideas, new tools, and new ways of seeing.
Art is at its strongest when it is inclusive, rigorous, and alive—when it honours where we have come from,
confronts where we are, and imagines where we might go.
To be an artist is to carry the past forward, transform the present, and leave the door open for what has
not yet been dreamed.
- Vincent Michael Brown
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