George Rice-Smith

Biography

George Rice-Smith was born in London in 1988, and grew up in Alton, Hampshire. He studied Art & Visual Culture at the University of the West of England, Bristol, before attending The Drawing Year at the Royal Drawing School. On completion he was awarded the Richard Ford Award, a travelling scholarship for figurative artists to study paintings in the collection at the Museo Del Prado, Madrid. In 2014 he was appointed first Artist in Residence at Chawton House Library, and began working as a Supervisor & Technician at the School, a role he held until 2018. He has worked as an assistant for a writer and for numerous artists, including several of the School's Senior Faculty members, and has worked in the Prints & Drawing department at the V&A and at Tate as a Sculpture Conservation Technician. George produces paintings and drawings of the land and city-scape, of friends and models, narrative works from imagination inspired by the ‘Old Masters’, figurative sculptures, and more. He is based in London and Hampshire.