TOM COATES P.P.R.B.A.,
R.W.S., R.P., R.O.I., N.E.A.C., P.P.S.
(born 1941)
"Alfred Daniels
painting on the
Oil Painting on Canvas over
board. Signed
10" x 8” IMAGE
Tom Coates is a painter in oil, watercolour and pastel in the
spontaneous English tradition. He
studied at Bourneville College of Art from 1956 to 1959, at Birmingham College
of Art from 1959 to 1961 and at the Royal Academy Schools from 1961 to 1964,
his teachers including Peter Greenham.
He won several prizes and scholarships during his studies and many
after. As well as showing widely in
mixed shows in London and the provinces, Tom Coates was President of the Royal
Society of British Artists and is also a Member of the Royal Society of
Painters in Watercolours, the Royal Society of Portrait Painters, the Royal
Institute of Oil Painters, the New English Art Club and is President of the
Pastel Society. He has carried out a
series of prestigious commissions including in 1990 to paint the Ceremonial
Procession celebrating HRH The Queen Mother’s 90th birthday. He wrote “Creating a Self-Portrait” in 1990.
