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Steve Caldwell is a contemporary artist working predominantly in portraiture and figurative painting. He was an exhibitor in the prestigious BP Portrait Awards in both 2014 and 2015 and has exhibited regularly with The Sunday Times Watercolour Competition and with the Royal Society of Portrait Painters. He is also a double prize winner in the RBSA Portrait Prize.

Using his training as a medical artist, Caldwell paints meticulous and intimate works using detail and texture to reinforce the identity and reality of the sitter. Caldwell's work is influenced by a love of the paintings of Degas, Andrew Wyeth, John Singer Sargent and Chuck Close. He creates decidedly contemporary paintings which affectionately acknowledge the history of classical portraiture.

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Selected exhibitions:

• 1996/2012 The Wirral Society of Arts Open Exhibition.
• 2012/14/15 The Sunday Times Watercolour Competition.
• 2012 The Cork Street Open Exhibition.
• 2013/15 The RBSA Portrait Prize Exhibition.
• 2013 Morecame Unframed.
• 2013 Realism at The Gallery Liverpool.
• 2014 Brave New Realists at Go Figurative.
• 2014/15 The BP Portrait Award.
• 2015 Winner of The Samuel Bath Award.
• 2014/17 The Royal Society of Portrait Painters Annual Exhibition.
• 2016/17 Orchar Fine Art Spring Show.

Selected clients include:

• Bloomberg Media, Puffin Books, Wayne Hemingway MBE,
• MIWK Books, IPD, DC Thompson, Scholastic Books,
• AMV BBDO, Guinness, Severnhouse, Allied Artists.