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THE ARTIST Jack Stephenson trained at Walthamstow and Hornsey colleges of art and taught art in London for 30 years while regularly exhibiting at galleries in and around the Capital as well as at the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition. At the age of 40 he treated himself to a year's sabbatical to take an MA in painting and printmaking at Goldsmith’s College, an experience which convinced him that painting was his priority. At 50, he and his wife, botanical watercolourist, Christine Stephenson, took early retirement from teaching and moved to Middleton, Suffolk where they both have studios. Jack sees himself as working in the ongoing English figurative tradition and, perhaps unfashionably, values classic drawing skills above all as the basis of successful painting. Although he also paints landscapes and still-lifes, Jack is primarily a portraitist working to commission and has made the modern ‘conversation piece’ something of his own speciality. He lists as his principal influences: Velazquez, William Nicholson, William Orpen, John Singer Sargent, John Ward, R.A. and, especially, Ken Howard, R.A. under whom he studied figurative composition at Walthamstow. Jack has been a member of the Suffolk Group for 10 years and is currently its treasurer. He is also President of the Southwold Art Circle. WORKING PRACTICE Charges range from £300 - £500 for a portrait drawing, and £1,000- £2000 for a small oil portrait up to £8,000 - £16,000 for large canvases featuring family groups or conversation pieces. TEACHING |
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