“Study of Old Cottages”
Watercolour on blue/grey
paper. Signed with monogram
Picture size 6 3/8” x 10”
(162mm x 254mm)
Overall framed size 15 3/8” x
18 ½” (390mm x 470mm) 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.
