The Chronicle, Summer 2019

19 ST EDWARD’S CHRONICLE

Yellow House, Richis, Transylvania, oil on canvas

currently working towards a show next Easter at Anthony Hepworth Fine Art in Walton Street. My favourite artists run to quite a long list. For drawing I look to the quick ink studies of Raphael, the biblical pen, brush and ink studies of Rembrandt and life studies of Rodin and that’s just the letter R! For painting interiors I turn to Vuillard and Bonnard but also to painters like Robert Motherwell and Joseph Albers. For help with still life Morandi cuts to the chase and Chardin reminds me not to be lazy. The list goes on and all these great masters both inspire and dwarf in equal measure but ultimately you are on your own and need to put away the great masters! I have taught at Teddies for a great and I enjoy working in it alongside my extraordinarily talented colleagues. My job is to help our aspiring young artists open their eyes and minds to the world, throw caution to the wind and see beyond grades. It is not how intelligent you are but how you are intelligent in life that counts and grades do not always recognise this fact. One of my favourite quotes is: ‘No man of sense ever supposes that copying from nature is the art of painting; if the art is no more than this, anybody may do it, and the fool often will do it best, as it is a work of no mind’, taken from Volume 2 of Life of William Blake , edited by Alexander Gilchrist. All too often the good grades go to the fool! www.peterlloyd-jones.co.uk peterlloydjones1 many years. The Art Department continues to inspire young people

Peter Lloyd-Jones

my postgraduate years I met a great many of the Royal Academicians who are the teachers at the RA schools and, more importantly, I met my wife, the artist Victoria Rees. An Elizabeth Greenshield Scholarship funded my first year as a practising artist and I went on to have 10 one-man shows in London as well as numerous exhibitions in group shows and art fairs in the UK, USA, Holland and Hong Kong. I still exhibit regularly and like to show in London about every three or four years. I am

After studying at the Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art in Oxford, I went into teaching but, during my first term, received a letter from the Royal Academy Schools informing me that there was a place on the three-year postgraduate course. Caution (an artist’s worst enemy!) was thrown to the wind: I left my job, went to London and continued my studies learning to draw and paint. The RA schools were at the hub of the art world in London in the 1980s, which was an important element in my becoming an artist. During