Tom Coates is a past president of the Royal Society of British Artists and of the Pastel Society. He has won many awards throughout his career, has received numerous prestigious commissions both in the UK and overseas and has paintings in collections worldwide, including the Royal Collection.

Tom was born in Birmingham, England, in 1941 and studied first at the Birmingham College of Art then at the Royal Academy Schools. He is a master in figurative painting and drawing, winning his first major prize in the Sunday Times Watercolour Exhibition of 1988. In 2007, he was awarded the Ondaatje Prize for Portraiture.

James Lloyd is an acclaimed portraitist. He was born in 1971 and held the Paul Smith scholarship at the Slade School of Fine Art from 1994 to 1996.

James' illustrious career has seen him winning 2 of the most prestigious global portrait awards. In 1997 he won first prize in the BP Portrait Award and in April 2008 he was awarded the Ondaatje Prize for Portraiture, given annually to the painter of the most distinguished painting in the annual exhibition of the Royal Society of Portrait Painters.

Nicholas Usherwood is a writer, curator and art critic.

He has written on artists such as Julian Trevelyan and Sir Sidney Nolan and for many publications including The Times, The Sunday Times, The Daily Telegraph and Arts Review.

He is currently Features Editor of Galleries Magazine.

Anita Klein studied at Chelsea and The Slade schools of art.

She is a fellow and past president of the Royal Society Of Painter Printmakers and has work in many private and public collections in Europe, the USA and Australia, including The Arts Council of Great Britain.

 

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