Victoria Anne Cornwell King MA FRSA

ABOUT

Victoria Anne Cornwell King MA FRSA is a UK based Classical Fine Artist, Academic, Writer & Creative Consultant.

King draws upon her own personal history and life experiences in her work, to develop narratives which also explore aspects of contemporary life in the 21st century. At the same time, she also aims to celebrate key artists, to thereby shed light on their life, history and creations.

King respectfully celebrates the legacy of Master Artists, Vermeer, Botticelli, Massacio, Da Vinci, Michelangelo, Raphael, Caravaggio, Artemisia Gentileschi, aiming to perpetuate the traditional methods and techniques these unique artists incorporated within their work.

This then informs her own painting practice to explore a range of Northern and Italian Renaissance Master artists, at a time when new techniques were evolving. coupled with the notion of a new ‘Age of Enlightenment’.

‘Age of Innocence’ 2015 – After Massacio/Masolino /Brancacci Chapel

Victoria Anne Cornwell King MA FRSA first studied Fine Art as an evening class pupil with artist Charles Gebherd (Holmes Road Art Centre) who originally trained at The Royal Academy School London. This tuition was in addition to Art classes with Miss Walker as Head of Art, Parliament Hill Girls’ School Highgate London.

Her early art studies covered Life Drawing, Portaiture and Still Life, creating work across media, in charcoal, graphite, pen/ink, pastel and oil paint. Concurrently King also studied Classical Ballet/Russian Style to a professional level 11-18years with Miss Kathleen Crofton, a high;y talented young protegee of Prima Ballerina Anna Pavlova, and who later became a sololist with the Markova-Dolin Company.

However King finally decided to concentrate upon her Art Studies, completing the Art Foundation Course at Hornsey College of Art 1968, followed by further studies at Walthmstow School of Art/Univ East London. Her tutors here included Sir Peter Blake RA, Olwyn Bowey RA, Richard Rome RA, Jack Smith, Fred Dubery RA Tutor /NEAC and writer Iain Sinclair FRSL – for Film Studies.

On leaving university King worked intensely for decades across the UK creative cultural sector, from arts manager and entrepreneur, to becoming a creative consultant, Arts Development Officer and ultimately university lecturer with x4 London universities. Over this time King developed indepth knowledge and experience in the politics of arts support, audience engagement and funding strategies.

In 1991 King was awarded a postgraduate Master of Arts Degree in Arts Policy & Management from The City University with Professor John Pick, a world authority on arts/cultural support. King established her own Arts Management Consultancy, and subsequently worked with a range of artists, arts organisationa and government agencies. For example; Arts Council England/ as Arts Project & ArtsMark Assessor, IMT Gallery, LBB&D A13 Public Arts Project/Arts Deveopment Officer. London Arts Board/NADA Residencies, LBB Finchley & Hackney Arts Fesivals, Centre Manager Barnet Arts Workshop,SPACE STUDIOS Manager responsible x14 Artists Studio Complexes across London, and SPACE AWARDS/FRESH ART Fair at Business Design Centre Islington.

This was followed by becoming specialist Arts Management Lecturer with BIRKBECK UCL, also the Director of Placements for 17 years. Concurrently King was also Visiting Lecturer with London Metropolitan, Greenwich and Middlesex universities. Her commitment to professionally mentor and train students to fully suceed in a range of different careers within the UK creative cultural sector always being paramount in this work.

In 1994 King resumed her own painting practice again, initially on a part time basis, and then full time on leaving her work as a university lecturer.

King held a professional studio at The Chocolate Factory CF1 Clarendon Road Wood Green for 22 years, then moving back to a SPACE Studio again in 2017 due to the further development of The Chocolate Factory CF1 building.

Since 1994 KIng has always regularly completed commissions, and regularly exhibited in a range of exhibitions, participating in Kensington/Chelsea Town Hall Art Fair, Summer Salon with the Lubomirov Angus-Hughes Gallery, Le Mur Vivant Fine Art Pimlico, N22 College Artists, and member of Essex Art Club. She has also delivered a number of highly successful workshops via The Renaissance Atelier based at The Chocolate Factory, on Renaissance Painting and Drawing Methods and Techniques, the use of mediums, glazing, composition and colour theory.

As a Liveryman with The Worshipful Company of Arts Scholars, King was invited to deliver a presentation on x4 Holbein Portrait Drawings for The Worshipful Company of Barber Surgeons in the City of London.

Her inherent interest in the Renaissance has led her to complete ongoing research since 2011, with LARA (London Atelier Representational Art sadly defunct), David Cranswick at The Princes Drawing School, and conferences, courses atThe National Gallery, The Wallace Collection, The Courtauld and more recently 6 Flemish Masters with Oxford University.

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