Colin paynton biography

  • Shortly after leaving art college he joined up with Colin Ruffell and Richard Akerman and 'Spectrum Studios' was founded.
  • He is widely regarded as the leading exponent of wood engraving in the United Kingdom and his work is represented in many private and public collections around.
  • Colin See-Paynton creates fine wood engraving and prints.
  • COLIN SEE-PAYNTON

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    Biography


    1983

    Associate of the Royal Society of Painter Etchers and Engravers

    1984

    Member of the Society of Wood Engravers

    1985, 1986

    National Eisteddfod prize winner

    1985, 1987

    Humberside Printmakers exhibition prize winner

    1986

    Fellow of the Royal Society of Painter-Printmakers

    1993

    Fellow of the Royal Cambrian Academy

    1998

    RSPB/Society of Wildlife Artists’ prize winner

    2004

    Honorary Fellow Royal Society of Painter-Printmakers

    2018

    Sir Kyffin Williams Centenary Drawing Prize for his drawing "Six March Hares" on display at Oriel Ynys Mon until 27 January 2019


    2018Kyffin Williams Drawing Prize 2018 - Oriel Ynys Mon, Llangefni, Anglesey LI77 7TQ
    2018Summer Exhibition  - Royal Cambrian Academy, Crown Lane, Conwy LL32 8AN
    2018Solo - Show - Oriel Ffin y Parc Gallery, Betws Road, Llanrwst, Conwy LL26 0PT
    2018

    SWE 80th Annual Exhibition 

    BRLSI, 16-18 Queen Square, Bath BA1 2HN
    Bankside Gallery, 48 Hopton Street, London SE1 9JH
    Zillah Bell Galleries, 15 Kirkgate, Thirsk, North Yorkshire YO7 1PQ
    Da Gadderie / Shetland Museum, Shetland
    Pier Arts Centre, Orkney
    Woodend Barn Art Centre, Banchory

    Biography of the artist

    1946 – 1972

    Born in Bedford in 1946, Colin Paynton finished his schooling and went on to study at the Northampton College of Art from 1963-1965.

    Shortly after leaving art college he joined up with Colin Ruffell and Richard Akerman and ‘Spectrum Studios’ was founded. They specialised in selling their paintings door to door.
    Sometime later, and before it became a commercial street market, Colin Paynton also sold his paintings at Bayswater Road on weekends.

    The fledgling Athena Print Company produced many prints by Colin Paynton with great success, but it was ‘Don Quixote’ and ‘The Haywagon’ published by Felix Rosenstiels Widow and Son that were perhaps the two best known examples of these reproduction prints. Paintings were also produced for sale by G-Plan during this time who exhibited them in room settings within large department stores.

    1972 – Present 

    In 1972  Colin Paynton moved to Wales. The first eight or ten years in Wales saw Colin Paynton working mainly in acrylics and watercolour, examples are shown in our collection. By 1980 as Colin See-Paynton, after a name change through marriage, he began to work increasingly in printmaking using wood engraving as his main medium, consequently f