Russian artists at Royal Society of Portrait Painters Annual Exhibition

Unlike other portrait exhibitions, this exhibition is rigorously selected by professional portrait painters who themselves have been elected by their peers to their Society. It forms a showcase of recent portraiture with over 200 portraits by over 100 artists.

This year there is a display of works by Russian artists:

Valeriy Gridnev “A Woman with a Book”
Evegeny Grouzdev “Sonny Boy” and “Kit Heath”
Tule Clow “Portrait of a Young Dancer”

Valeriy Gridnev studied at the Art College in Sverdlovsk 1976 – 1980, and then Ural Repin St.Peterburg State Academy Institute of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture 1983-1990. His graduation project “The Early Years” won The Gold Medal of USSR Academy of Arts. He then at St. Petersburg Academy of Art’s ‘Postgraduate Creative Studio’.

Evgeny Grouzdev graduated with Full Honours from the Academy of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg in 2000 (the traditional 6 year course). The Academy of Fine Arts in St. Petersburg is considered the finest in the world for Fine Arts together with the Florence Academy of Art. Evgeny specializes primarily in portrait painting.

Tule Clow was born in 1977 in Arcata, California, and lives in St Petersburg, Russia. A graduate of Bowdoin College, Maine, she studied painting at the St Petersburg Academy of Art from 2012 to 2018. She took part in a two person exhibition at the Academy in 2018.

And there are more Russian connections: exhibitor Ilsa Britain trained in Moscow, and Elena Vladimir Baranoff has a Master of Fine Arts Diploma in Miniature Painting in Centuries Old Medium of Egg Tempera from Palekh Art College, Palekh, Russia