©Hugo Grenville
The Big Window, Autumn
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The Big Window, Autumn II
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Summertime- Studio Interior with Jug of Flowers
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A Summer Evening on the Mediterranean
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'Home Thoughts from Abroad' 42" x 60" Oil and Gold Leaf on Canvas
Threadneedle Prize 2013
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Hugo Grenville is a well-known painter with an international reputation, and a past as colourful as his paintings. Although he first exhibited in London at the Chelsea Arts Society at the age of 15, it took him another 14 years to become a full time painter. After leaving school he travelled the Hippy Trail to India, ran out of money, joined the Coldstream Guards and served as an officer in Northern Ireland, West Africa, Rhodesia (Zimbabwe) during the Civil War, and finally as an Aide-de-Camp to C-in-C British Army of the Rhine, during which time he painted whenever possible, and studied part-time at Chelsea School of Art and Heatherley's.
Working first in advertising and then as an art dealer, he finally admitted his need to paint full-time at the age of 30. With 20 one-man shows under his belt at major galleries in London, New York and Palm Beach, Hugo has forged an enviable reputation as one of the country’s leading colourist painters, resulting in invitations to lecture and teach from institutions such as Falmouth School of Art and the V & A Museum. His fabric designs were included in the Liberty’s Spring/Summer Collection of 2011, and he was short listed for the Threadneedle Prize in 2013.
During his career he has painted many portraits of leading figures, including the late Archbishop of Canterbury Lord Runcie, and the counter-tenor Michael Chance in the role of Orpheus at the ENO, has been an Official War Artist in Bosnia, has written regularly for The Artist magazine. Hugo’s well known summer school reopens in Bristol in September 2014 as The Grenville School of Painting.
http://www.hugogrenville.com/about.htm
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The Big Window, Autumn
The Big Window, Autumn II
Summertime- Studio Interior with Jug of Flowers
A Summer Evening on the Mediterranean
'Home Thoughts from Abroad' 42" x 60" Oil and Gold Leaf on Canvas
Threadneedle Prize 2013
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Hugo Grenville is a well-known painter with an international reputation, and a past as colourful as his paintings. Although he first exhibited in London at the Chelsea Arts Society at the age of 15, it took him another 14 years to become a full time painter. After leaving school he travelled the Hippy Trail to India, ran out of money, joined the Coldstream Guards and served as an officer in Northern Ireland, West Africa, Rhodesia (Zimbabwe) during the Civil War, and finally as an Aide-de-Camp to C-in-C British Army of the Rhine, during which time he painted whenever possible, and studied part-time at Chelsea School of Art and Heatherley's.
Working first in advertising and then as an art dealer, he finally admitted his need to paint full-time at the age of 30. With 20 one-man shows under his belt at major galleries in London, New York and Palm Beach, Hugo has forged an enviable reputation as one of the country’s leading colourist painters, resulting in invitations to lecture and teach from institutions such as Falmouth School of Art and the V & A Museum. His fabric designs were included in the Liberty’s Spring/Summer Collection of 2011, and he was short listed for the Threadneedle Prize in 2013.
During his career he has painted many portraits of leading figures, including the late Archbishop of Canterbury Lord Runcie, and the counter-tenor Michael Chance in the role of Orpheus at the ENO, has been an Official War Artist in Bosnia, has written regularly for The Artist magazine. Hugo’s well known summer school reopens in Bristol in September 2014 as The Grenville School of Painting.
http://www.hugogrenville.com/about.htm
This entry was originally posted at http://elle-belle.dreamwidth.org/1789039.html. Please comment there using OpenID.