Born in 1952, I spent most of my childhood growing up in a village in the Kent countryside. Drawing was part of my life from a very early age so it was no surprise that I eventually found myself at Camberwell Art School and life as I now know it really began. I began exhibiting in 1977 while working with Editions Alecto on two publishing projects:”A Voyage Round Great Britain”, a co-publication with the Tate Gallery, and as editor for Egerton-Williams Studio on “Banks’ Florilegium”, a co-publication with The British Museum of Natural History. In 1980 I exhibited at The National Portrait Gallery in “A New Look at British Portraiture” and began accepting commissions for portraits. I was a finalist in The National Portrait Gallery’s Annual Portrait Awards from 1980 to 1993. The Royal Academy Summer Exhibition has selected my work fairly regularly since 1988, and other exhibitions have included “Portraits for the 80’s”, “The Human Figure, Not Necessarily Nude” and “Picturing People, British Figurative Art since 1945”. I was elected to membership of The Royal Society of Portrait Painters in 1994, and went on to become President in 1999. (http://therp.co.uk/project/paul-brason-rp/) ... primarily known for his work as a portrait artist and represented in many public and private collections, including the National Portrait Gallery, the Royal Collection at Windsor Castle, the National Gallery of Scotland, Goodwood House, Eton College and the Bodleian Library, as well as many Oxford and Cambridge Colleges. His sitters have included HRH Prince Philip, HRH Prince Michael of Kent, the Dukes of Westminster and Richmond, Sir Roy Strong, Sir Hugh Casson and Sir Michael Tippett: Lords Leverhulme, Wilson, Morris and many others. Winner of the Ondaatje Award for portraiture in 1998, he has exhibited regularly at the BP Awards at the National Portrait Gallery, The Royal Academy Summer Exhibition and the Royal Society of Portrait Painters... (http://www.paulbrason.co.uk/about/) undefined

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