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Frances Bell RP

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Indian Yellow 

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Frances Bell RP
Oil
71 x 66 cm
£7,500
Related exhibition:
Royal Institute of Oil Painters Annual Exhibition 2020
Available for collection: 
10 December 2020

Maggie 

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Frances Bell RP
Oil
85 x 70 cm
£7,500
Related exhibition:
Royal Institute of Oil Painters Annual Exhibition 2020
Available for collection: 
10 December 2020

Berwick Harbour

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Frances Bell RP
Oil
65 x 80 (79 x 94 cm framed)
£6,300
Related exhibition:
Royal Society of Marine Artists Annual Exhibition 2020
Available for collection: 
15 October 2020

A Hot Day in August

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Frances Bell RP
Oil
130 x 160 (140 x 170 cm framed)
Related exhibition:
Royal Society of Portrait Painters Annual Exhibition 2020
Available for collection: 
30 September 2020

Cressida Dick

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Frances Bell RP
Oil
75 x 90 (85 x 100 cm framed)
Related exhibition:
Royal Society of Portrait Painters Annual Exhibition 2020
Available for collection: 
30 September 2020

Katie

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Frances Bell RP
Oil
70 x 80 (80 x 90 cm framed)
Related exhibition:
Royal Society of Portrait Painters Annual Exhibition 2020
Available for collection: 
30 September 2020

Louisa

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Frances Bell RP
Oil
120 x 100 cm
Related exhibition:
Royal Institute of Oil Painters Annual Exhibition 2019

Langur Monkeys, Narlai

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Frances Bell RP
Oil
40 x 55 cm
Related exhibition:
The Natural Eye 2019
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About Frances Bell RP

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Artist details

Artist's Statement

In her portraiture work Frances Bell paints from life, using the sight-size technique, over a few sittings. The artist is happy to travel to sittings but she does have a studio which can accommodate visitors for sittings also.

Bell also loves landscape and wildlife painting, having had a lifetime of living rurally to observe and immerse herself in the natural world. Bell is greatly inspired by the world's wilder spaces, as well as the interaction between animals that we farm and wild animals in our shared environment. The North of England provides so much to observe, and a great variety of texture and light, so Bell find an abundance of subjects for her work. 

Biographical Details

Frances Bell was born in Cambridge in 1983. At the age of eighteen, she left England to pursue a classical training in Florence at Charles. H. Cecil Studios. After completing her training, Bell maintained a connection with the Art School by teaching there from 2005 to 2011. The artist has participated in many exhibitions and has had solo shows in Bonhams, Edinburgh. She has also been featured in, and written, a range of articles, including pieces on commissioning and sight-size for The Artist Magazine. Bell now lives in North Northumberland with her husband and two children; her time is spent completing commissioned portraiture and landscape work.

Society Memberships

Royal Society of Portrait Painters

Other Society Memberships

Society of Women Artists

Scholarships, Awards, Prizes

Her awards include the De Laszlo Foundation Award through the Royal Society of Portrait Painters’s exhibition in 2006, the Winsor and Newton Young Artist Award in 2010 and then in 2011 was awarded the Barbara Tate Award, and The Artist Editor’s Choice Award both through the SWA. In 2014 she won the Sheffield University Portrait of a Woman Award.

Exhibitions

Royal Society of Portrait Painters Annual Exhibition 2018
Royal Institute of Oil Painters Annual Exhibition 2017
Royal Society of Portrait Painters Annual Exhibition 2017
Royal Society of Portrait Painters Annual Exhibition 2016
Royal Society of Portrait Painters Annual Exhibition 2015

Other exhibitions

Solo Exhibition at Bonhams, 2009 and 2013.

SWA exhibiton from 2010.

ROI exhibition 2009.

BP Portrait Award 2012.

Publications

Frances was discussed in her involvement of the BP Portrait Award 2012, by Brian Sewell.

 

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