michael hyam

About me:

I'm a mainly figurative representational painter. I have had eight one-man shows in London. I have also exhibited in Chicago, Geneva, Milan and Hong Kong. I tend to work mainly within in a representational frame because my primary interest is the human face and figure. Drawing is at the centre of everything I do and I use most mediums mainly oil paint, watrcolour, mixed media collage, wax, varnish, graphite and found materials, watercolour, and often on hand-made papers. I sometimes like to combine figurative imagery with abstraction which lends certain works a fragmentary nature. ....................................................................................................................................... Edited CV: SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS 1989 Royal Overseas League, London (Prize winner). 1989-92/95 Royal Watercolour Society, London. 1990/92/96 /99 Sunday Times Watercolour Exhibition, London. 1990/92/93/2007 Royal Society of British Artists, London. 1991-92/94 /98 Royal Institute of Painters in Water colours, London. 1991-94/98 Royal Society of Portrait Painters, London. 1990/92/96 Singer-Friedlander Watercolour Exhibition , London. 1992/1996/2007/2008/2009 'The Discerning Eye', Mall Galleries, London. Winner of the Meynell Fenton prize in 2007. 1994/1995 Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, London. ....................................................................................................................................... SOLO EXHIBITIONS 1994 Waterman Fine Art, London. 2000 Adam Gallery, Bath. 2002/2004/2006/2008 Adam Gallery, London and Bath. 2010 Panter & Hall, Mayfair, London. ....................................................................................................................................... AWARDS 2007 Meynell Fenton award, 'Discerning Eye'. 1989 Countess Driscoll-Spalletti Prize at the Royal Overseas League. 1991 Short list for Carroll Award at the Royal Society of Portrait Painters. 1991 Short list for Young Artist Award at the Royal Institute of Painters in Watercolours. 1992 Daler-Rowney Prize Royal Watercolour Society. ....................................................................................................................................... PORTRAIT COMMISSIONS AND PRIVATE COLLECTIONS(with permission) Mr. Johnny Depp and Mme. Vanessa Paradis. Mr. Jeffery Palmer. Sir Christopher Patten. Sir Frank Rogers (ex Vice Chairman of the Daily Telegraph newspaper). Peter & Avril Riddell (Head Political Journalist and Commentator at The Times newspaper). Sir Philip Naylor-Leyland. The Newspaper Society. Apollo Magazine. RBS London. Prince Charles' Collection, London. Featured in Cartier Magazine February 2007. .......................................................................................................................................