Robin-Lee Hall (born 1962) is a Surrey-based English fine artist and former President of the
Royal Society of Portrait Painters.
Biography
Born in 1962 in London, Hall attended the Central
Saint Martins School of Art and Design and
Kingston Polytechnic gaining a BA Honours degree in Fine Art.
Career
Since 2004 she has painted extensively in the very ancient medium of
egg tempera.
In 2008 she was elected a member of the
Royal Society of Portrait Painters, having regularly exhibited in their annual exhibition since the mid 1990s.
In 2010 she won th
Ondaatje Prize for Portraitureand Gold Medal at the Royal Society of Portrait Painters Annual Exhibition. The winning portrait, ‘Joy’, is now on permanent display at
Girton College, Cambridge, as part of ‘The People’s Portraits’ collection.
Hall has exhibited in the
BP Portrait Award at the
National Portrait Gallery National Portrait Gallery may refer to:
*National Portrait Gallery (Australia), in Canberra
*National Portrait Gallery (Sweden), in Mariefred
*National Portrait Gallery (United States), in Washington, D.C.
*National Portrait Gallery, London, with s ...
and the
Royal Academy Summer Exhibition.
Her portrait of astronomer,
Sir Patrick Moore, is in the BBC’s collection and her painting of past Speaker of the House of Commons, Sir Bernard Weatherill, hangs in
Portcullis House, Westminster.
In 2009, Hall participated in
Antony Gormley
Sir Antony Mark David Gormley (born 30 August 1950) is a British sculptor. His works include the ''Angel of the North'', a public sculpture in Gateshead in the north of England, commissioned in 1994 and erected in February 1998; ''Another Pla ...
’s ‘One and Other’ project, where she painted for one hour on top of the
fourth plinth in
Trafalgar Square, London.
Hall is a freelance lecturer at the
National Gallery and
National Portrait Gallery, London
The National Portrait Gallery (NPG) is an art gallery in London housing a collection of portraits of historically important and famous British people. It was arguably the first national public gallery dedicated to portraits in the world when it ...
.
Awards
*
Ondaatje Prize for Portraiture and Gold Medal at the Royal Society of Portrait Painters Annual Exhibition 2010.
External links
Official Robin-Lee Hall WebsiteRobin-Lee Hall artist profile: The Royal Society of Portrait Painters Official WebsiteRobin-Lee Hall: artwork in public collectionsPeople's Portrait Collection, Girton College, Cambridge
References
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English portrait painters
1962 births
Living people