Toby Wiggins
Winter's Work; Russell Woodham at rest while laying a hazel hedge in the Dorset Style
Oil on canvas
122 x 151 cm
£ 15,000.00
Toby Wiggins studied at the Royal Academy Schools, exhibiting at the Royal Academy of Arts, the National Portrait Gallery (winning the BP Travel Award in 2006), Holburne Museum, Bath, the...
Toby Wiggins studied at the Royal Academy Schools, exhibiting at the Royal Academy of Arts, the National Portrait Gallery (winning the BP Travel Award in 2006), Holburne Museum, Bath, the Jerwood space and the New English Art Club among others.
Toby won the Prince of Wales Drawing Award in 2005, was elected to the Royal Society of Portrait Painters in 2006, winning the Changing Faces Prize that year. He exhibited at the National Portrait Gallery 2007 and Dorset County Museum in 2008. He won the Worshipful Company of Painter-Stainers Prize for Figurative Painting in 2009, the Royal Drawing Award in 2013 and exhibited a group of landscape paintings from the Mani peninsula in the Peloponnese at the Hellenic Centre, London in 2019. He won the Ondaatje Prize for Portraiture in 2023 with this portrait of The Dorset Hedgelayer, Russell Woodham.
Toby was born in Dorset and continues to live and work here finding great inspiration in the landscape and it’s people.
Toby won the Prince of Wales Drawing Award in 2005, was elected to the Royal Society of Portrait Painters in 2006, winning the Changing Faces Prize that year. He exhibited at the National Portrait Gallery 2007 and Dorset County Museum in 2008. He won the Worshipful Company of Painter-Stainers Prize for Figurative Painting in 2009, the Royal Drawing Award in 2013 and exhibited a group of landscape paintings from the Mani peninsula in the Peloponnese at the Hellenic Centre, London in 2019. He won the Ondaatje Prize for Portraiture in 2023 with this portrait of The Dorset Hedgelayer, Russell Woodham.
Toby was born in Dorset and continues to live and work here finding great inspiration in the landscape and it’s people.