Michael Grimsdale

MICHAEL GRIMSDALE

Michael Grimsdale was born in London in 1936.  He was brought up in an Army family in Hong Kong, Singapore and South Africa.  He was educated at Cheltenham College, RMA Sandhurst and St. Martins School of Art, London. He lived in Mexico for two years and Australia for four years.  His paintings are in private collections worldwide.  He paints mostly commissioned portraits, sports, landscapes and copies of famous paintings.  He has exhibited at the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition; London; Cowdray Park Polo Club; Equus, Newmarket; Tanjah Flandria, Tangiers and Marrakesh; Arden Gallery, Sydney, Somoza Sims Gallery, Houston, USA, and Napier Gallery, Jersey.  He has paintings on permanent exhibition in the World Trade Club, Dubai. Holocaust Museum, Chicago, the Museum of Music, Taiwan and Apothecaries Hall, London.  He also has paintings in the collection of Harlequins FC, Bath Rugby Club and Gleneagles.  He has illustrated books for Octopus and Mitchell Beasley among others.  Drawings have appeared in Readers Digest and Aramco World magazine as well as advertising campaigns for J. Walter Thompson and Saatchi & Saatchi.  

His work can be seen on www.commissionaportrait.com and Chelsea Arts Club Gallery website.

2 Cheval Court, 335 Upper Richmond Road, Putney, London SW15 6UA

Tel/Fax: 020-8789 2171 - Home Tel/Fax: 020-8788 6181

Email: michaelgrimsdale@talktalk.net