Gallery

In 2006 Andrew Tift took the £25,000 First Prize at the B.P. Portait Award for his portrait of Lucian Freud's first wife “Kitty”

PUBLIC COLLECTIONS:

• The National Portrait Gallery
• The Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C.
• Jersey Museum and Art Gallery
• Sunderland Museum and Art Gallery
• Royal Over-Seas League
• The House of Commons
• The Santa Fe Institute
• The New Art Gallery, Walsall
• Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery
• Frissiras Museum
• The Honourable Society of The Inner Temple
• The Old Bailey
• The Grosvenor Museum
• House of Lords
• The British Academy
• Balliol College
• Manchester Grammar School

NOTABLE COMMISSIONS:

• Rt Hon. Tony Benn MP – House of Commons
• Neil and Glenys Kinnock – National Portrait Gallery
• Sir Patrick Cormack FSA MP – The Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C.
• Sir Clifford Boulton – House of Commons
• Sir Colin Imray – Royal Over-Seas League
• Professor Carlos Brebbia – Wessex Institute of Technology
• Murray Gell-Mann (Nobel piece prize winning scientist) – The Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C.
• Cormack McCarthy – Author – The Smithsonian Institute, Washington D.C. USA
• Lord Chief Justice Woolf – The Honourable Society of the Inner Temple
• His Honour Judge Michael Hyam – The Old Bailey
• Ken Livingstone, National Portrait Gallery
• Eric Sykes, CBE,National Portrait Gallery
• Alan Garner,OBE, Grosvenor Museum
• Lord Carrington, House of Lords
• Sir Adam Roberts, The British Academy, Balliol College

ARTISTS STATEMENT

I am a figurative realist painter and predominantly specialise in portraiture. I work in a highly detailed, intensely realistic manner and aim for an absolutely pure and objective likeness. Specific environments and narrative objects are often extremely important ingredients to my portraits as they can help to reflect and reinforce the sitters identity. I seek to convey people in the most understanding, intimate and sympathetic way that I can.