John Walton

John Walton studied at the Ruskin School of Drawing in Oxford, and at the Slade School of Fine Art in London where he won the Melville Nettleship Prize for Figure Composition. 

He has been the Principal of the Heatherley School of Fine Art in Chelsea since 1974 and has his London studio in the school. 

Elected a member of the Royal Society of Portrait Painters (RP) in 1976 he organized an exchange exhibition with the Societé des Artistes Français in 1982 with RP members showing in the Grand Palais and the British Embassy in Paris.  In 1986 he undertook the work to transform the Portrait Society into an incorporated Charity.

Chairman of the Federation of British Artists (FBA) from 1990-1997 he also acted as Senior Executive of the FBA leading negotiations for a new lease on the Mall Galleries.

Exhibitions include the Royal Academy, The Royal Society of Portrait Painters, The Royal Society of British Artists, The Paris Salon (Hon Mention) and the institute de France - Académie des Beaux-Arts.
  

• Principal, Heatherley School of Fine Art
• Hon. Treasurer, Royal Society of Portrait Painters
• Co. Secretary, The Thomas Heatherley Educational Trust
• Trustee, The Mall Arts Trust
• Director, Art News Agency Ltd
• also, Chairman, Board of Governors, Federation of British Artists 1990 -1997

• H.M. King Hussein of Jordan
• H.R.H. Duchess of Gloucester – Colonel in Chief Royal Irish Rangers
• Marshal of the Royal Force, Sir Michael Beetham
• Major General Le Marchant (Posthumous) Royal Military Academy Sandhurst
• Lieutenant General Sir Anthony Mullens
• Captain Marcus Ervine Andrews V.C.  Lancashire Regiment
• Gloria, Countess of Bathurst
• Lord McAlpine of Moffat
• Lord Cadman
• Lord Barnby, Chancellor University of Bradford
• The Rt. Hon. Sir Stephen Brown, President, Family Division, High Court
• The Rt. Hon. Sir Roy Beldam, Lord of Appeal
• Mr Justice Gage
• Mr Justice Lind Smith
• Sir Max Williams, President, The Law Society
• Sir Reginald Murley, President, Royal College of Surgeons of England
• Dr. Stuart Carne, President the Royal College of General Practitioners
• Professor Alistair Bellingham, President, Royal College of Pathologists
• Professor Geoffrey Chamberlain, President, Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists
• Sir Rodney Sweetenham, President, Royal College of Surgeons of England
  

• Royal Colleges of - Surgeons of England, Pathologists, Gynaecologists, General Practitioners
• London Livery Companies - Clothworkers, Drapers, Upholders
• Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst
• The Law Society
• The Inner Temple
• Lloyds Shipping Register
• The Royal Irish Regiment
• The Queen's Lancashire Regiment
• The Drapers and and Clothworkers Companies, City of London
• Aldenham, Epsom and Greycoat Schools
• Christ’s Hospital, Abingdon
• also schools, colleges and private collections in the UK, USA, Canada, France, Switzerland, Germany, Sweden and the Bahamas.

• Royal Academy
• Royal Society of Portrait Painters
• Paris Salon
• Academie des Beaux Arts - Institut de France
• and throughout the UK and France

Email this artist: johnwalton@therp.co.uk