Viewing David Remfry at the Royal Watercolour Society

David Remfry is perhaps best known for his celebrity portraits, New York cityscapes and large-scale watercolours showing interiors and people dancing. Since graduating from art school in the early Sixties, he has immortalised in paint such famous faces as Jerry Hall, Stephen Fry and the actor Sir John Gielgud.

He’s also enjoyed solo exhibitions around the world and been added to a number of public collections including those of the V&A, Wakefield Museum and Hove Museum and Art Gallery. Between 2016 and 2018 he was the Professor of Drawing at the Royal Academy Schools in London.

In celebration of Remfry’s 80th birthday, the Royal Watercolour Society is staging a solo show of around 60 works from the past 30 years. Curated by James Russell, it includes portraits of Stella McCartney, Quentin Crisp and Alan Cumming, as well as dancers and New York landscapes.