tel: 07817839996
e-mail: emma_wesley@yahoo.co.uk


 

 

Emma Wesley (b. 1979) is a portrait painter who lives and works in London.
She has exhibited widely and shows her paintings regularly with the Royal Society of Portrait Painters, to which she was elected a member in 2007. She has work in many private and public collections, including the National Portrait Gallery, London.
She undertakes commissions from small head studies to large group portraits, and is particularly interested in painting people in their working environment, surrounded by the tools of their trade.


 

 

EDUCATION

1997 – 2000 MA English Literature, Selwyn College, Cambridge

2000 – 2003 Postgraduate Diploma in the Conservation of Easel Paintings, Courtauld Institute of Art, London

EXHIBITIONS

2003, 2004, 2005, – BP Portrait Award, National Portrait Gallery, London
2006, 2008

2003-2008 – Royal Society of Portrait Painters Annual Exhibition, Mall Galleries, London

2004 – Singer and Friedlander/Sunday Times Watercolour Competition, Mall Galleries, London

2005 – Hunting Art Prizes, Royal College of Art, London

2005 – Royal Society of British Artists Annual Exhibition, Mall Galleries, London

2006 – 150th Anniversary Exhibition – Mystery Portrait Postcards, National Portrait Gallery, London

2006 – Wales Portrait Award, Bodelwyddan Castles and touring

2006 – Up Close and Personal, Hatton Gallery, Newcastle

AWARDS

2004 – Singer and Friedlander/ Sunday Times Watercolour Competition – Young Artist Award

2005 – Hunting Art Prizes – Young Artist, Runner-Up

2005 – Royal Society of British Artists – Gordon Huson Memorial Prize

2005 – Royal Society of Portrait Painters – De Laszlo Silver Medal

2006 – Wales Portrait Award – Second Prize

2007 – Royal Society of Portrait Painters – HSBC Award

2007 – Elected to Membership of the Royal Society of Portrait Painters

2009 – Royal Society of Portrait Painters, De Laszlo Silver Medal

SOME COMMISSIONS

2003 – Sir John Weston KCMG and Lady Sally Weston

2006 – Lance-Corporal Johnson Beharry VC, – National Portrait Gallery, London

2007 – Professors Chris Frith FRS, FBA, FAAAS and Uta Frith FRS, FBA, FAMS

2007 – Dr Margaret Bent CBE, FBA, – All Souls College, Oxford

2008 – Professor Myles Burnyeat CBE, FBA

2008 – Sir Brandon Gough, Chancellor – The University of East Anglia

2009 – Jack Straw MP, Lord Chancellor and Minister for Justice

PUBLIC COLLECTIONS

National Portrait Gallery, London

Singer and Friedlander, London

All Souls College, Oxford

Royal Welch Fusiliers, Wrexham

OTHER ACTIVITIES

2008 – Participated in ‘The Limits of Interpretation’ – a talk at the British Academy, London

2008 – Judged the A1 Art Competition, Richmond, North Yorkshire