![]() Of painting he says, “It transports me into another dimension which refreshes parts of the soul which other activities can’t reach. In the same year he appeared in an ITV documentary called Royal Paintbox. These works feature the same loose brushwork, shimmering fabrics. Three years ago the Prince eventually published an online archive of 130 of his watercolours. 1643 London, Tate Gallery), Charles II, Prince of Wales (1643 Edinburgh. In the 1980s Charles began inviting artists on Royal tours while he founded the Prince’s Drawing School in 2000 providing tuition to 1,000 people a week. Nothing the critics say will diminish the Prince’s passion. My one piece of advice would be to make his paintings bigger so that he can achieve more expression.” There are some very good delicate washes. However if I didn’t know it was Prince Charles I would say it is an artist with some skill who is still developing. Nick Harrison Jones, an art teacher and watercolour painter who has exhibited at Bankside Gallery, in London, says that it is a harsh assessment. He looks like what he is, a hobby artist.” They are merely ordinary and obviously amateur. Last week art critic Jonathan Jones dismissed the Prince’s paintings, writing: “They are not awful. Yet while there is clearly an international market for Charles’s work, his paintings are not to everyone’s taste. Victoria and her husband, Prince Albert, were especially talented and left a large collection of etchings.Ĭharles, who has a sizeable private collection of works by other artists, has also passed on his passion to his son, Prince William, who studied art history at St Andrew’s university. Other Royal artists included Queen Victoria, the Duke of Edinburgh and the Duke of York. The Prince of Wales’s work first came to public notice at a 1977 exhibition at Windsor Castle. The Royal Family has a tradition of drawing and painting. Another who mentored Charles was John Stanton Ward who was commissioned to paint Diana, Princess of Wales in her wedding dress. Early in life he discussed technique with Edward Seago, a renowned English watercolourist who died in 1974 and whose work was prized by the Queen Mother. Occasionally he has sought professional tuition from established artists. “We often get people asking about buying an original by Prince Charles but as far as I know none has ever been sold,” she comments. ![]() He once said: “We walk away and shuffle off our mortal coil but these things live on.” It is the main reason why he has never sold any of his originals which, according to Laura, would be worth many times more than the limited edition prints. Living artists make about £10,000 a year but when sales by Prince Charles are averaged out he has earned in the region of an astonishing £200,000 a year from his art over the past quarter of a century. Charles has never put himself out there as a professional.” “People like the idea of owning a work which has been signed by the future king but the prints would not sell if he had no talent. ![]()
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