Alastair Adams

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Alastair Adams

Alastair Adams (born 1969 in Kingston Upon Thames) is an English artist best known for portraiture. He lives and works in Rutland. [1]

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Life and work

Alastair studied painting at Hugh Baird College, Bootle and also at De Montfort University graduating in 1992. He was elected as a member of the Royal Society of Portrait Painters [2] in 2002, became Treasurer in 2005 and President in 2008. Between 2002 and 2017 he held a research based post, lecturing in Illustration at Loughborough University. [3]

Alastair's work can be found in numerous public and private collections, including a portrait of ex Prime Minister, Sir Tony Blair for the National Portrait Gallery, [4] London and Princeton University Art Museum. [5] He has donated 3 works of art to the People's Portrait Collection housed at Girton College, Cambridge. [6] In 2020 Alastair joined a number of artists who pledged via social media to paint portraits of nominated NHS key workers for the Portraits for NHS Heroes [7] art project during the Covid pandemic. He is a Trustee of the Federation of British Artists. [8]

Notable portraits

Since 2015, Alastair has been commissioned to paint a number of portraits for Yale University, New Haven, USA including two portraits of Chief Investment Officer David Swensen, [9] [10] and posthumous works of Carolyn Slayman, [11] Dorothy Horstmann [12] and Katherine Lustman. [13]

References

  1. ↑ "The Art of Portrait Painting". Friends of Rutland County Museum & Oakham Castle. 2 March 2019. Retrieved 27 September 2023.
  2. ↑ "Alastair Adams PPRP". The Royal Society of Portrait Painters. Retrieved 27 September 2023.
  3. ↑ "January | Media Centre | Loughborough University". www.lboro.ac.uk. Retrieved 27 September 2023.
  4. ↑ Brown, Mark (20 December 2013). "Tony Blair portrait unveiled at National Portrait Gallery". The Guardian . ISSN   0261-3077 . Retrieved 27 September 2023.
  5. ↑ "Portraits of distinguished Princetonians Ruth Simmons and Elaine Fuchs unveiled". Department of African American Studies. Retrieved 27 September 2023.
  6. ↑ "People's Portraits". Girton College. Retrieved 27 September 2023.
  7. ↑ Paskett, Zoe (22 April 2020). "Artists are painting free portraits of NHS workers to say thank you". Evening Standard. Retrieved 27 September 2023.
  8. ↑ "Alastair Adams PPRP". Mall Galleries. 13 August 2019. Retrieved 27 September 2023.
  9. ↑ Fabrikant, Geraldine (5 November 2016). "The Money Management Gospel of Yale's Endowment Guru". The New York Times. ISSN   0362-4331 . Retrieved 27 September 2023.
  10. ↑ "Yale's Strategy". Yale Investments Office. Retrieved 27 September 2023.
  11. ↑ "London artist paints powerful portraits of YSM luminaries". medicine.yale.edu. Retrieved 27 September 2023.
  12. ↑ "Horstmann portrait headlines opening of Aperture 2". medicine.yale.edu. Retrieved 27 September 2023.
  13. ↑ Yaffe-Bellany, Adelaide Feibel, David (19 September 2017). "Davenport to form portrait committee". Yale Daily News. Retrieved 25 June 2024.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  14. ↑ Pilditch, David (5 May 2014). "Tony Blair puts a Loyalist painting on his wall". Daily Express. Retrieved 27 September 2023.
  15. ↑ "003 – Sir Alastair Cook CBE". Mall Galleries – Buy Art. Retrieved 22 June 2024.
  16. ↑ "Nick Frost, Actor, Screenwriter, Producer and Author | Alastair Adams Mall Galleries". Mall Galleries. 8 May 2019. Retrieved 27 September 2023.
  17. ↑ "Bruce Robinson, writer and director – National Portrait Gallery". npg.org.uk. Retrieved 27 September 2023.


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