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- FEATURED ARTISTS - JACK STEPHENSON |
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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.
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Contact:
Jack Stephenson
Telephone:
01728 648748
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www.portraitsfromlife.co.uk |
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Guideline
prices: 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. |
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- oil portrait |
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