The Belle Époque Today: The Art of Paul Brason, PPRP, RWA

HRH Prince Michael of Kent
Paul Brason, 1986

A past president of the Royal Society of Portrait Painters (PPRP), Paul Brason has been exhibiting his work since 1977. His large figural paintings have a haunting quality to them. With subjects composed of detailed planes of light, Brason employs a sense of color that allows his models to seem to break away from their backgrounds. Brason has painted a host of exclusive commissions from high-profile sitters including HRH Prince Michael of Kent.


Known primarily for his portraiture, Paul Brason is also an accomplished painter of non-figural works including studies of interiors, genre paintings and landscapes. This multi-talented artist has also been involved in publishing, working with the Tate Gallery on the book, Voyage Round Great Britain and as editor for Banks' Florilegium. This prize-winning artist now resides and keeps a studio in Bath. To see more of Brason's work, visit his official Web site. 




Delphi
Paul Brason



The Belle Époque Today: The Art of Peter Kuhfeld, RP

The Wyndham Family
Peter Kuhfeld

A member of the Royal Academy, The Royal Society of Portrait Painters, and the New English Art Club, Peter Kuhfeld has been painting since 1972. This multiple-prize winning figurative painter has impressed critics and art lovers with his richly-colored portraits.


Kuhfeld not only shows the essence of his sitters in his romanticized portraits, but also has mastered showing them in their natural surroundings and in compositions which don’t appear to be posed, but rather seem to be captured moments in time. While his loose brushstrokes lend an ethereal quality to his subjects, his brave use of color affords them weight and permanence while his brilliant rendering of light and shadow anchor his subjects into the frame of the composition.

HRH Charles, The Prince of Wales
Peter Kuhfeld

A proponent of the New English Art Movement, Kuhfeld continues to prove that a portrait doesn’t need to be a photographic representation in order to effectively and attractively showcase both the sitter’s beauty and the artist’s talent.

The Belle Epoque Today: The Art of Jeff Stultiens, RP

Her Majesty, Queen Elizabeth II
in Garter Robes
Jeff Stultiens, 2003
The Royal Society of Portrait Painters

A figurative painter with an interest in portraiture, Jeff Stultiens has been a member of the royal Society of Portrait Painters since 1991. This award-winning painter has been the focus of many an exhibition and has been surrounded by art throughout his entire life. The son of two artists-- Thomas Stultiens HMI & Kate (née Whittaker), he married Catherine Knowelden, also an artist, who whom he has two daughters.


As a child in 1953, Stultiens was witness to the passing of Queen Elizabeth II’s limousine on the day of her coronation. Fifty years later, he was asked to paint the commemorative portrait of the Queen in honor of the her fiftieth year as monarch. His larger-than-life portrait of Her Majesty in garter robes caught the attention of the world, and added another layer of notability to this already celebrated portrait artist whose ability to render almost photographic realism owes largely to his brilliantly subtle use of his media.

Richard King, Sculptor
Jeff Stultiens
The Royal Society of Portrait Painters