Alastair Adams

Alastair studied painting at Hugh Baird College, Bootle and also at De Montfort University graduating in 1992. He was elected as a member of the Royal Society of Portrait Painters^[2] in 2002, became Treasurer in 2005 and President in 2008. Between 2002 and 2017 he held a research based post, lecturing in Illustration at Loughborough University.^[3]

Alastair's work can be found in numerous public and private collections, including a portrait of ex Prime Minister, Sir Tony Blair for the National Portrait Gallery,^[4] London and Princeton University Art Museum.^[5] He has donated 3 works of art to the People's Portrait Collection housed at Girton College, Cambridge.^[6] In 2020 Alastair joined a number of artists who pledged via social media to paint portraits of nominated NHS key workers for the Portraits for NHS Heroes^[7] art project during the COVID pandemic. He is a Trustee of the Federation of British Artists.^[8]

Since 2015, Alastair has been commissioned to paint a number of portraits for Yale University, New Haven, USA including two portraits of Chief Investment Officer David Swensen,^[9][10] and posthumous works of Carolyn Slayman,^[11] Dorothy Horstmann^[12] and Katherine Lustman.^[13]

• Tony Blair^[14]
• Sir Alastair Cook^[15]
• Nick Frost^[16]
• Bruce Robinson^[17]