Martin Yeoman NEAC RP SPS

About

See below for artist information or to get more of a personal insight, read our interview with Martin Yeoman NEAC SPS.

Martin Yeoman’s work is admired by both painters and collectors alike, as a result he is considered to be one of the best draughtsman working in Britain today. 

Yeoman left school at the age of 16 and without having the chance to go to art school, In 1973 he travelled overland and headed towards Kashmir.

After nearly a year of travel and surviving by selling his drawings as he went, he returned to England with a portfolio of drawings and a very clear sense of purpose. Martin showed these drawings to Walter Woodington, curator at the Royal Academy Schools, who introduced him to the then keeper of the Schools Peter Greenham. 

Greenham suggested he attended a weekly life drawing class organised by Jane Dowling. After a few months he was invited to be a guest student at the Royal Academy Schools and in 1975, he began a three year course extended to four. 

In 1976, the art historian and connoisseur Sir Brinsley Ford discovered Yeoman’s work at the Annual Premiums show and from here Sir Brinsley began to collect Yeoman’s work. In 1985 he introduced him to HRH The Prince of Wales, who personally invited Yeoman onto the official Royal Tour of the Gulf States in 1986. Thus making him the first young ‘Tour Artist’ to teach the Prince drawing and painting. Yeoman subsequently accompanied the Prince of Wales on further tours to Hong Kong, India and Nepal.

Scholarships, Awards & Prizes

2016 The Doreen McIntosh Prize at the New English Open
2016 The Woodhay Picture Gallery Prize at the New English Open
2004  The Bill Turner Prize for Drawing
2002  The Ondaatje Prize for Portraiture
1998  The Philip Solomon Drawing Prize
1996  Menena Joy Schwabe Prize
1980  Elizabeth Greenshield Scholarship
1979  Richard Ford Scholarship
1978  David Murray Landscape Scholarship
1976  Silver Medal for Drawing, Royal Academy Schools

Notable Portraits

Her Majesty the Queen 's Grandchildren (Royal Collection Windsor)
Dr Courtney Phillips 
Sir Brinsley Ford 
Dr Hugh Montefiore (former Bishop of Birmingham)
E V Norrell (Norrie) Coxswain of the Royal Yacht
Michael Hoare
Sir Alan Hodgkin OM Royal Collection Windsor
Sir James Whyte Black (National Portrait Gallery, London)
A Young Edward Sheeran (Ed Sheeran) & Mathew Sheeran
Nicholas and Alexander Niarchos
​Laurie Weedon, D-Day Veteran (Commissioned by HRH Prince of Wales as part of The Last of the Tide exhibition)