Lapper, Ivan
As an artist, Ivan is at the top of his field. His work can be seen in great houses, castles and museums all over the UK, including the Royal Collection. His paintings and drawings have been published in newspapers, magazines .......
IVAN LAPPER ARSMA ARCA
As an artist, Ivan is at the top of his field. His work can be seen in great houses, castles and museums all over the UK, including the Royal Collection. His paintings and drawings have been published in newspapers, magazines and books as well as being shown in art galleries nationwide.
His work is in the fine tradition of representational watercolour and oil media, full of light, atmosphere and meaning. He is equally at home with landscape, architecture and people and has particular skill as a draughtsman. A highly successful reconstruction artist, Ivan has produced vivid and dramatic reconstructions of historical scenes and characters.
He produced 12 paintings of the Tower of London for the Tower Hill Environs Centre, which was opened by the Queen in the summer of 2004. A further 14 paintings of the Tower, are now in the Royal Collection.
An Associate of the Royal College of Art, Ivan taught Illustration and Life Drawing for forty years at various colleges, including Hornsey College of Art, St Martin's School of Art, the Ruskin School (Oxford University), Camberwell School of Art, and Kingston University.
His recent exhibitions include
• British Modern Masters Exhibition, 2008
• Royal Institute of Oil Painters
• Royal Society of Marine Artists
• Singer & Friedlander/Sunday Times Watercolour Competition
• Royal Watercolour Society's 21st century Open Exhibition
• Royal Institute of Painters in Watercolours
• Discerning Eye
• New English Art Club
• Golden Age of British Illustration
• Tower of London Millenium Exhibition
Charles Pears Award Winner for the Best Painting by a Non Member, in the RSMA Annual Exhibition 2006 2007.
Ivan Lapper was born in Bilston in Staffordshire. From the age of 12 he attended Bilston Art School on day release from school, followed by Wolverhampton College of Art from 1954 to 1959 where he gained a NDD in Illustration. He was at the Royal College of Art from 1959 to 1962, becoming an Associate of the College (ARCA) in Illustration and Engraving. In October 2008 Ivan was made an Associate Member of the Royal Society of Marine Artists (ARSMA).
