Tim Benson was educated at Glasgow School of Art and Byam Shaw School of Art from 1998-2001 and is currently President of the Royal Institute of Oil Painters. As a practised figurative artist Tim not only creates a distinguishable likeness of a subject but moreover evokes the sitter’s character and mood. He is never satisfied with simple representation, rather concentrating on bringing to his work an emotive and often visceral quality.

Tim regularly exhibits in solo and group exhibitions around the UK. He displays fine art paintings that stand on their own as collectible works of art and accordingly has established a large following and collector base. In addition to his fine art pieces, he accepts more formal portrait and figurative commissions in oil or charcoal. 

http://timbenson.co.uk   

Carl Randall is a graduate of The Slade of Fine Art, BA, Painting, The Princes Drawing School, the Drawing Year, and Tokyo University of Fine Arts, MA & Doctorate Fine Art. He is a previous 1st prize winner of The Sunday Times Watercolour Competition, and the 2012 BP Travel Award, where he had a display of 16 Japan-themed paintings at The National Portrait Gallery London (then touring to Scotland and Japan). His book ‘Japan Catalogues’ and prints of his portraits are on sale at The National Portrait Gallery. He has had several solo exhibitions in London and Japan, and exhibited with various galleries, including several times in The Royal Academy of Art Summer Exhibition, the BP Portrait Awards, The Jerwood Drawing Prize, The Lynn Painter Stainers Prize, The Royal Society of Portrait Painters at The Mall Galleries, and  Flowers Gallery London. He has exhibited internationally at art fairs in Switzerland, Istanbul, Taiwan and Tokyo, and has work in the permanent collections of University College London Museum, Fondation Carmignac Paris, Singer & Friedlander Bank, Tokyo University of Arts Museum Japan, and The Royal Collection (commissioned by HRH Prince of Wales). He has been interviewed by the BBC and CNN about his work.

http://www.carlrandall.com  

Robin-Lee Hall PPRP is Past President of the Royal Society of Portrait Painters. She trained at Saint Martins and Kingston. She has exhibited at the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, the BP Portrait Award and the RP Annual Show. In 2010 she won the Ondaatje Prize for Portraiture. She works with many different painting and drawing materials including drawing on an iPad and working in the ancient medium of egg tempera. She lectures and teaches workshops at the Royal Academy of Arts and the National Gallery.

http://robinleehall.co.uk  Instagram: @robinleehallartist 

Geraldine Swayne is an English painter, who works mainly in miniatures, in enamel on metal.

She studied Fine Art at Newcastle University from 1985–89 and in 1990 she won a Northern Arts Travel award to paint and make super-8 films about voodoo in New Orleans, then moved to rural France for a year, living as a portraitist and making a series of large outdoor paintings. In 1992 she moved to the UK and became a pioneer special effects designer at Computer Film Company, in London and later, in Los Angeles. 

Since 1999, she has made numerous experimental films including the world’s first super-8 to Imax film East End, produced by Cathy Shaw, and narrated by Miriam Margolyes with music by Nick Cave. After leaving the film industry in 2004, Swayne worked as an assistant for Jake and Dinos Chapman rebuilding Hell. Although better known as a painter, in 2005 she joined experimental rock group Bender and, in the following year, became a member of ‘Krautrock’ group Faust, with whom she has recorded two albums and toured widely, making musical improvisations and live paintings at venues such as the Wrexner Centre for the Arts in Ohio, Detroit Museum of Contemporary Art and CalArts.

More recent solo shows include ‘Silvering’ 2017, at the Fine Art Society, London, ‘Geraldine Swayne’ at W186 Project Rooms, Aeroplatics Gallery, Belgium and ‘Geraldine Swayne’ 2013 at Future Art Projects, Sheep Lane, London in 2013. She won the Royal Academy Summer Show Dupree Prize for best female artist 2018 and was commissioned to produce portraits for the Provost of Worcester College Oxford and the Ruth Borchard Family Collection.

https://www.geraldineswayne.org   

Charlie Pickard is a classically trained fine artist, illustrator and author. Trained at the London Atelier of Representational Art, completing his training in 2017. His work has been seen at the Royal Society of Oil painters in 2017 and the Royal Society of British Artists in 2020, where he was awarded the Philip Delazlo Award for excellence. Charlie also regularly contributes articles to various publications including Artists and Illustrators, Imaginfx and 3Dtotal. He Illustrated the book ‘Anatomy for Artists’ in 2020 and Authored the book ‘Colour and Light’ in 2021, both in partnership with the publisher of 3Dtotal. Charlie continues to work, write, exhibit and teach out of his studio in London.

https://charliepickardart.com/