RP member Frances Bell Featured in The Evening Standard
Painter Frances Bell on early struggles, the YBAs and AI art
Published on Sat 27 Apr 2024
By William Hosie
Meet prize-winning painter Frances Bell: 'I wanted to be a traditional artist – that was my passion'
The artist on how she went from the stereotype of ‘starving in a garret’ to one of the most in-demand portraitists in Britain.
When she was 21, painter Frances Bell was living “in the boot of [her] car” scraping by on £10,000 a year. “All the stereotypes about starving in a garret tend to be true,” she says of an artist's early career[...]
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Frances Bell's portraits are featured in the Royal Society of Portrait Painters Annual Exhibition 2024. The exhibition will take place from 9 May to 18 May 10am to 5pm at Mall Galleries.
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