Charlotte Sorapure, RP, NEAC
Trained at the Royal Academy of Arts in London, Charlotte is a figurative Artist living and working in Bath. She has exhibited in the UK and abroad, as well as produced commissioned Portraits and Murals. She is a member of the Royal Society of Portrait Painters and the New English Art Club, and was commissioned to paint a portrait of the war photographer Don McCullin CBE for the Holburne Museum in Bath.
Biography
ART EDUCATION
Royal Academy of Arts, London – Post Graduate Diploma in Painting
Cheltenham & Gloucester College of Art and Technology – BA (Hons), Fine Art
Bournemouth and Poole College of Art and Design – Foundation Diploma
MEMBERSHIPS
The Royal Society of Portrait Painters
The New English Art Club
The Worshipful Company of Painter-Stainers, Honorary Member
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS – 1996-2026
‘In Full Bloom’, group show with David Simon Contemporary, Somerset, 2026
Rosa Botanical Art Fair, West Dean College, Sussex, with David Simon Contemporary, 2026
NEAC group show,David Simon Contemporary, Somerset, 2025
Drawing Prize Exhibition, Royal Society Of Portrait Painters, 2025
Panter and Hall, Pall Mall, ‘Untold Stories’, Joint Exhibition, 2025
The Royal Society of Portrait Painters annual exhibition, 2026 -1998
Beaux Arts Gallery, Bath, ’Inspiration,’ group show, 2025
Brian Sinfield Gallery, ‘Five Artists’, 2025
‘The Discerning Eye’ Mall Galleries, London,2010, 2024
Paul Scott Gallery, group show, Scottsdale, Arizona, USA, 2024
The London Art Fair, with Panter and Hall, Pall Mall, 2024
Brian Sinfield Gallery, Oxfordshire – ‘In the Mind’s Eye’, Joint Exhibition, 2023
Victoria Art Gallery, Bath – ‘Capturing Life’- A Century of The New English Art Club, 2023
Chris Beetles Gallery, London, NEAC Group Shows, 2020-22
Messums Wiltshire – ‘New Perspectives’, 2018
‘The Lynn Painters Stainers Prize’ Exhibition, London, 2018, 2017, 2007, 2006
Brian Sinfield Gallery, Oxfordshire, Joint Exhibition, 2017
Ruth Bourchard Portrait Prize, Piano Nobile Gallery, London, 2017
Messum’s Toronto Art Fair, 2015
Holburne Museum, Bath – ‘The Observer Observed’, portraits alongside photographs by Don McCullin, 2015
Messum’s, Cork Street, London, Joint Exhibition, 2014
Victoria Art Gallery, Bath – Solo Exhibition, 2013
Messum’s, Cork Street, London – Solo Exhibition, 2012
’Holburne Portrait Prize’ Prize Winner, Holburne Museum, Bath, 2012
‘Pure Gold: 50 Years of the Federation of British Artists’, Mall Galleries, London, 2011
Quest Gallery, Bath – Solo Exhibition, ’Peering Under Stones’, 2010
Messum’s, Cork St, London – ‘The Magic and Poetry of Everyday Life’ – group exhibition, 2010
Royal West of England Academy, Bristol, winner of Odin Prize, 2010
‘Holburne Portrait Prize’, Holburne Museum, Bath , 2010 –
‘Three Women Artists’, Petley Fine Art, Cork Street, London, 2008
Drawing Exhibition and Summer Show, Petley Fine Art, Cork Street, London, 2007-2005
Thackeray Gallery, Kensington, London, 2005
Six Chapel Row Gallery, Bath, Solo Show, 2005
Hunting Art Prize, Royal College of Art, London, 2000
B.P. Portrait Award Exhibition, National Portrait Gallery, London, 1996
Christies, London – ‘Reflections’, Spectator Magazine, 1996
Waterman Fine Art Ltd, London, group shows, 1995, 1994
Royal Academy of Arts Summer Exhibition, London, 1993-1996
‘Making a Mark’, Drawing Exhibition, Mall Galleries, London, 1994
AWARDS
Zsuzsi Roboz prize, New English Art Club, Mall Galleries, London, 2016
Holburne Portrait Prize, Bath – with Commission to paint Don McCullin – War Photographer, 2012
Odin Prize, Royal West of England Academy, 2010
Bill Patterson Memorial Prize, New English Art Club, 2009
Cecil Jospe Prize, New English Art Club, 2008
Nat West 90’s Prize for Art – Prize winner, 1996
Richard Ford Travel Award to Madrid, 1995
Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation Award, 1991 & 1993
Royal West of England Academy, Project Bursary 1994