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Ivy Smith is a Norwich-based painter and printmaker, with a well-established interest in depicting people and landscape. Having trained at the Royal Academy Schools and Chelsea College of Art, Ivy Smith has attained a BA Honours degree and a Post-Graduate Diploma in Fine Art Painting and Printmaking. Ivy often works on commissions, larger painted portraits, these can be family groups or single figures. The drawings establish the composition of the painting, and carry visual information about the sitters. Public commissions include a portrait of Sir David and Sir Richard Attenborough for the National Portrait Gallery 1987 (currently hung in the NPG’s 20th Century Display).

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