Steve Caldwell - UK
Steve Caldwell is a contemporary portrait and figurative artist.
He has exhibited twice in the prestigious BP Portrait Award at The National Portrait Gallery in London and shows regularly with The Sunday Times Watercolour Competition and The Royal Society of Portrait Painters.
He is also a triple prize winner in The RBSA Portrait Prize.
Using his training as a medical artist, Caldwell paints meticulous and intimate works using detail and texture to reinforce the identity and reality of the sitter.
Caldwell's work is influenced by a love of the paintings of Degas, Holbein, Andrew Wyeth, John Singer Sargent and Chuck Close.
He creates decidedly contemporary paintings which affectionately acknowledge the history of classical portraiture.
Selected exhibitions include:
The Wirral Society of Arts Open Exhibition 1996.
The Sunday Times Watercolour Competition 2012 at The Mall Galleries, London.
The Wirral Society of Arts Open Exhibition 2012.
The Cork Street Open Exhibition 2012.
Realism at The Gallery Liverpool 2012.
The RBSA Portrait Prize Exhibition 2013 (Prize winner).
The Sunday Times Watercolour Competition 2015 at The Mall Galleries, London.
Orchar Fine Arts Spring Exhibition 2016.
Shortlisted for The Jacksons Art Open Painting Prize 2017.
Orchar Fine Arts Spring Exhibition 2017.
Winner of The Jackson Art Prize at The RBSA Portrait Prize 2017.
The Royal Society of Portrait Painters Annual Open Exhibition 2017 at The Mall Galleries, London.
Selected clients include AMV BBDO, Guinness, Diageo, Bloomberg Markets, DC Thompson, IPC, MKP, MIWK Publishing, Allied Artists and Puffin Books.