Charles Bone, Esq

Career: artist; lectr Brighton Coll of Art 1950-86, conslt COSIRA 1952-70; craft advsr Malta Industries Assoc 1952-78, designer Stourhead Ball 1959-69, dir RI Galleries Piccadilly 1965-70; critic for Arts Review; memb Cncl RI 1964 (vice-pres 1974), govr Fedn of Br Artists 1976-81 and 1983- (memb Exec Cncl 1983-84 and 1986-88), pres Royal Inst of Painters in Water Colours 1979-89 (vice-pres 1974-79); Hunting Gp Prize for the Most Outstanding Watercolour by a Br Artist 1984; hon memb: Botanical Artists, Medical Art Soc, Fedn of Canadian Artists; ARCA; Exhibitions oils and water colours in exhibitions: Medici Gallery 1950-, London Gp, NEAC, RBA 1950-, RA 1950-; 50 one-man exhibitions 1950- (most recently Spain 2007); Works in Private Collections France, Italy, Malta, America, Canada, Japan, Aust, Norway, Sweden, Germany; Other Work incl: ceramic mural on the history of aerial photography, other murals in Italy and Spain, film on painting for Castle Communications plc 1990, book on Waverley Surrey 1991

Books and Publications: The Author's Circle (1998), Anglican Cathedrals (2000)