From the Artist: Jamie Routley RP
8th May 2025
Elected to the Royal Society of Portrait Painters in 2022, Jamie Routley is the Society's newest member.
He was born in Newport, South Wales in 1982 and educated entirely in the Welsh language at Ysgol Gyfun Gwynllyw. Having completed his BA in Illustration at Swindon College, he studied under the American painter Charles H. Cecil in Florence, Italy (2004 – 2008).
His work has been exhibited in numerous group exhibitions including those of the National Portrait Gallery, BP Portrait Award, Royal Society of Portrait Painters, Figurativas (MEAM Barcelona), The Columbia Threadneedle Prize and The Ruth Borchard Self Portrait Prize.
Awards include the National Portrait Gallery’s BP Young Artist Award and The de Lazlo Foundation Award for Excellence from the Royal Society of Portrait Painters.
In 2019, The Ruth Borchard Collection, the UK’s only public collection of self portraits, purchased a self portrait for their collection.
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