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John Beard (born 1943) is a Welsh artist and painter born in Aberdare, Wales, [1] now based in Sydney, Lisbon and London.
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John Beard (born 1943) is a Welsh artist and painter born in Aberdare, Wales, [1] now based in Sydney, Lisbon and London.
In 2006, Beard won the Art Gallery of New South Wales Wynne Prize for Landscape painting, and, in 2007, he won the Art Gallery of New South Wales Archibald Prize for Portraiture.
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