Akash Bhatt RBA | Royal Society of British Artists

Watch Out! Here Comes the Super Power

Mixed media on canvas

38 x 50 cm
Left Behind

Oil

81 x 160 cm
Madhu

Watercolour

55 x 40 cm
Borrowed Time

Oil

38 x 244 cm
Apoyol Al Partido Communista

Mixed media

60 x 92 cm

About Akash Bhatt RBA

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Biography

Artist's Statement

My interest lies in people and their habitats. I have often travelled extensively searching for new projects; however I am equally comfortable gathering inspiration from in and around where I live.

Method of Working

I work mainly from direct observation. I draw and paint when out on the streets gathering information in sketchbooks and on large sheets of paper. This is then brought back to my studio where I consider what will or will not be used. I use all forms of media and work on many different pieces at a time.

Biographical Details

1972 Born in Leicester

1991 - 92 Loughborough College of Art - Foundation Studies

1993 - 96 University of Westminster

1996 - 98 St Martins School of Art - Post Graduate Diploma

Society Memberships

Royal Society of British Artists

Other Society Memberships

Royal Watercolour Society

Scholarships, Awards, Prizes

2007 Purchase Prize Discerning Eye Mall Galleries

Winsor & Newton Painting Award RBA Mall Galleries

2005 Regional Award Discerning Eye Mall Galleries

2004 Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer Purchase Prize

2002 The Villiers David Prize

Third Prize Singer & Friedlander/Sunday Times Watercolour

1999 Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation Award

BP Portrait Award Finalist, Commended

1997 BP Travel Award

Exhibitions

New English Art Club Annual Exhibition 2017

Royal Society of British Artists Annual Exhibition 2016

Royal Society of British Artists Annual Exhibition 2015

Other exhibitions

2007 New Paintings, Beaux Arts Bath

2006 New Paintings, Beaux Arts Bath

Made in Cuba, Rebecca Hossack Gallery, London

2003 PNG: The Big Payback, Rebecca Hossack Gallery, London

2001 Indi-gestion, Rebecca Hossack Gallery, London

1998 'Out of Fiji', BP Travel Award, National Portrait Gallery, London & Aberdeen Art Gallery, Scotland

Publications

Watercolour Masters Then & Now (RWS Publication)