Jamie Coreth

Gallery Statement by Fine Art Commissions:

Jamie Coreth graduated from Oxford in 2010 with a degree in Archaeology and Anthropology. Keen to pursue a career as an artist, he studied at the London Atelier of Representational Art, Charles Cecil Studios and the Florence Academy of Art.  In 2014 he graduated from the Academy where, alongside his own studies, he had been working as an Art History lecturer and assistant tutor. 

In June 2016, a year after returning to London, his portrait Dad Sculpting Me was awarded the Young Artist Award at the BP Portrait Awards, National Portrait Gallery, London.  The painting depicts Jamie’s father, the sculptor Mark Coreth, sculpting Jamie. The pair ‘sat’ for their respective portraits over the course of a month. The judges of the BP Portrait Award commented, “we were drawn to the timeless quality of the painting and its treatment of a father and son relationship through art”.

In 2018 Broken Bodies, an arresting portrait of former soldier, turned sculptor, Mark Jackson, was accepted into the BP Portrait Exhibition to much acclaim.

Two years later, his work Portrait of Fatima was shortlisted for the BP Portrait Award – and was also selected for both the cover of the catalogue and the National Portrait Gallery’s marketing campaign. He later won the Visitors’ Choice with over 1,000 votes.

With three entries into this prestigious award, Jamie Coreth has established himself as one of Britain’s leading portrait artists. He paints with an intelligence and originality. He focusses on the character of his sitters, evoking a sense of their presence in his work. His technical facility sits in harmony with a modern vision.

  Awards and selected exhibitions

2022 Awarded second place in The Portrait Society of America’s Annual International Portrait Competition, Atlanta, USA

2021 Group: Elwes & Coreth: Relatives in portraiture, Fine Art Commissions, London, UK

2020 Awarded BP Portrait Award Visitors’ Choice

2020 Group: Shortlisted for BP Portrait Award, National Portrait Gallery, London, UK

2020 Group: Stage & Screen, Fine Art Commissions, London, UK

2019 Group: Summer Portraiture Exhibition, Fine Art Commissions, London, UK

2018 Group: Shortlisted for BP Portrait Award, National Portrait Gallery, London, UK

2017 Group: Fresh Paint, Fine Art Commissions, London, UK

2016 The Young Artist Award, BP Portrait Awards, National Portrait Gallery, London

2016 Group: Shortlisted for BP Portrait Award, National Portrait Gallery, London, UK

2015 Group: Selfie, Fine Art Commissions, London, UK

2015 Group: Contemporary Masters, Fine Art Commissions, London, UK

2014 Awarded ‘Best Painting of the Year’ prize at the Florence Academy 

2014 Group: Represent Art London, London, UK

2012 Awarded NADFAS painting prize at an exhibition at Guggleton Gallery, Dorset, UK

2012 Awarded the Queen Elizabeth Scholarship to study at the London Atelier of Representational Art

Selected collections and commissions

The Corporation of Trinity House of Deptford Strond (HRH The Princess Royal)

Canterbury Cathedral (Dr Robert Willis, The Dean of Canterbury)

The Baltic Exchange (Mr Guy Campbell)

The Baltic Exchange (Mr Lambros Varnivides)

MOD Chaplains (The Chaplain General, Jonathan Woodhouse)

MOD Chaplains (The Chaplain General, Stephen Robbins)

MOD Chaplains (The Chaplain General, Dr David Coulter)

Berry Bros & Rudd (Mr Simon Berry)

The Rifles Regiment (General Carter CBE)

J. & J. Denholm Ltd (Mr John Denholm)

White’s Club (Lieutenant Colonel Sir Archibald David Stirling, DSO OBE)

Mr Oriel College, Oxford University (Professor Rex Nettleford)

Emeritus Professor David Lewis Williams

Miss Alice Eve

Ronald Munro Ferguson

Lord Reay

Mr Rory Fleming

Clementine Gaisman

The Leith family

Mrs Lucilla Stephenson

Federal Judge, Hon. Kimba Wood

Dr Ogilvie-Graham

Mr Nicholas Deterding

The d’Arenberg family

The Duke of Roxburghe

Mr Derren Brown

Mr Richard Chilton

Mr Dominic Collins

Mr Tom Swerling

Mr Gerd Reimann-Dubbers

All paintings by Jamie Coreth are © Jamie Coreth 2022