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Alastair Adams PPRP (portrait artist)
Alastair Christian Adams (born 1969 in Kingston Upon Thames) is an international portrait painter based in the UK. He is a member and previous President of the Royal Society of Portrait Painters.

Career
Alastair Adams has been painting portraits since the mid 1990’s over which time he has established a strong reputation as a commissioned portrait artist. His dynamic but natural and unassuming portraits earning him many high profile commissions and acclaim through national and international exhibitions.

After becoming a member of the Royal Society of Portrait Painters (RP) in 2002, and taking a place on council shortly after, Alastair became the Society’s Treasurer in 2005. In 2008 he was made President, the youngest in the Society’s 120 year history. In his capacity as President, he continued to build upon the Society's history and strong reputation as a source for high quality, original and inventive world leading portraiture.

Alastair held a research based lecturing position at Loughborough University for 14 years and has published papers on commissioned portraiture, the application of life drawing within a modern educational context, drawing and visualisation and facial differences. He is an active external assessor for a number of art schools within the UK.

His own portraits are produced as part of an incisive, observationally centered, drawing and painting language. His role within the RP and position in academia enable him to promote a higher level of debate around the application and interpretation of portraiture, whilst providing a platform for the encouragement and support of contemporary figurative and portrait painters.

Noteable roles

 * Royal Society of Portrait Painters 2002 - ongoing (Member)
 * Loughborough University School of Art and Design 2003 - 2017 (Research Lecturer in Illustration and Graphic Design)
 * Royal Society of Portrait Painters 2005 - 2008 (Treasurer)
 * Royal Society of Portrait Painters 2008 - 2012 (President)
 * Royal Society of Portrait Painters 2019 - ongoing (Hon Archivist)
 * Royal Society of Portrait Painters 2022 - ongoing (Treasurer)
 * Federation of British Artists 2020 - ongoing (Trustee)

Noteable portraits
Tony Blair, for the National Portrait Gallery, UK. David Swensen, for Yale University, USA.

Ruth Simmons, for Princeton University Art Museum, USA.

Chuck Feeny, for Rhodes House, Oxford University, UK.

Carolyn Slayman, for Yale School of Medicine, Yale University, USA.

Dorothy Horstman, for Yale School of Medicine, Yale University, USA.

Clare Marx, for the Royal College of Surgeons, UK.

Simon Wessely, for the Royal College of Psychiatrists, UK.

Kamalesh Sharma, for the Commonwealth of Nations, Marlborough House, London, UK.

David Greenaway, for the University of Nottingham, UK.

Mayur Lakani, for the Royal College of General Practitioners, UK.

Steve Smith, for University of Exeter, UK.

Andrew Witty, for the University of Nottingham, UK.

Sally Davies, for Trinity College, Cambridge, UK.

Sally Morgan, for Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge, UK

Lars Renström, for Tetra Pak, Switzerland.

Bruce Robinson, exhibited in the BP Portrait Award, National Portrait Gallery, UK.

Richard E. Grant

Nick Frost