Caroline de peyrecave biography of william

  • Artist Caroline de Peyrecave SWA trained at the atelier of Charles H. Cecil – Florence, Italy.
  • A selection of life size portraits of living sailors, soldiers and aircrew, men and women, representing conflicts that the United Kingdom has been involved in.
  • Caroline has recently moved to London from Chesham Bois, where she grew up, but two pieces of her work can be seen at the Buckinghamshire Art Society exhibition.

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    Caroline De Peyrecave

    Caroline de Peyrecave SWA trained at the atelier of Charles H. Cecil &#; Florence, Italy.  She works mainly from life by a technique called sight-size.  The broad handling comes into focus when seen at the viewing distance. While her work belongs to this tradition, she tries to make it more interesting by pushing its boundaries and therefore hopefully giving it a contemporary edge.

    Caroline has exhibited frequently in London, mainly at the Mall Galleries and locally in Bucks.

    She takes regular commissions and has a lot of experience working with children.

    Most recently asked by Halcyon Days to draw HRH Prince William and Catherine Middleton and has also painted the BTCC racing driver Tom Chilton.

    She has been awarded the Sue Coombs Portraiture award by Princess Michael of Kent and the Caron Keating Award, presented by Gloria Hunniford at the Society of Women Artists annual exhibition.

    Caroline also has work in private collections in B

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    Worshipful Company of Painter-Stainers

    Livery company of the City of London

    The Worshipful Company of Painter-Stainers is one of the livery companies of the City of London. An organisation of painters of metals and wood is known to have existed as early as A similar organisation of stainers, who generally worked on staining cloth for decorative wall hangings, existed as early as The two bodies merged in ; the new organisation was incorporated under a Royal Charter in

    Today, the company is less an association of painters and more a charitable company, with the promotion of education in the fine and decorative arts and crafts as its main theme. The Painters' Company Scholarship Scheme was established in to support undergraduates every year at London Art Colleges. Each lärling receives £5, annually from the beginning of their second year until they complete their studies, and they are known as a Painters' Company Scholar. The students are selected entirely on merit, and this

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    The th Annual Exhibition was opened by The new President, Ian Cryer who succeeds Peter Wileman, who had been President since The Opening Speech and awards were given out by the eminent Historian Dr David Starkey.

    Dr David Starkey speaks about the history of the ROI and some reasons why the Institute gained it's Royal status.
    inom am happy to say that those two paintings in the middle of Dr Starkey and The President are mineyeah!


    The Exhibition runs  till Saturday the 21st of December. If you are in London please try your best to get down to The Mall Galleries, it's a cracking show!

    A cross section of the crowd at the Private View


    Every year I personally highlight a few paintings that caught my eye. These are just a few paintings that interest me! Apart from sketching and painting, I like to review paintings and say what excites me about them. So relax and enjoy a few of my ramblings!


    Adebanji with his painting Sloane Square, Summer S
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