Paul Karslake FRSA (1958 – 23 March 2020) was a British artist, primarily a painter.

Early life

Karslake was born in Basildon,

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Retrieved 2016-10-21. He studied at

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and Southend College of Art and Technology and started working with his father, Michael Karslake, an architectural model-maker working on such projects as

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and the Thames Barrier.

Artistic career

In the early 1970s Karslake was tutored by Sir Peter Scott; towards the end of that decade he met

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during a trip to Spain. Karslake then spent four years in California, working for the LA Art Studios, CBS Television and

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, with whom he later collaborated on the EuroDisney project. Karslake had numerous solo exhibitions, and became famous for his depictions of celebrities such as

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, Michael Caine and Grace Kelly. He won the ''

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'' Environment Award in April 1990 for hoarding artwork for Wiggins Group plc, and in the same year became a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts. His patrons included the Turf Club, NABIM, Geronimo Inns,

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, Keith Richards, Brian May and Yeardley Smith. Commissions in other mediums included design or artwork for the Virgin F1 racing cars, for commercial aircraft, coaches and

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roadshow trucks. He also tutored at schools and gave demonstrations to art groups. In 2002 Karslake signed for reproduction rights with the

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. The Karslake Centre, a centre for arts education, was opened at the

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on 15 September 2005. In 2009 he gained further exposure for his painting of Ronnie Wood as a vampire, after the latter left Karslake's sister Jo, his then wife, for a younger lover.

Personal life

He was the brother of

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, former wife of Ronnie Wood of the

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Death

He died on 23 March 2020 of sudden onset

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, which was caused by

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References

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