Martin Brooks RP

Martin Brooks

Martin trained at the Royal College of Art where he was awarded the Royal College Drawing Prize and Madame Tussauds Prize for Figurative Art.

Martin was awarded Arts Council funding to paint the Amish community in the US.

Notable portraits include theoretical physicist and broadcaster Professor Jim Al-Khalili, for the British Humanist Association and singer and songwriter Laura Mvula.

Scholarships, Awards, and Prizes

RP Member Martin Brooks has won numerous awards for his work since the beginning of his painting career in 1981. Some of the most recent awards are:

• Artists’ International Development Fund Award: ‘Painting the Amish’ 2017

• BP Travel Award Finalist 2016

• Bulldog Portrait Bursary Finalist, Royal Society of Portrait Painters 2014