Artistic background

Michael Cull lives and works in St Albans UK. Intially trained as an engineer but has been painting all his life. Michael works full time as an artist with oil, pastel and watercolour and sees drawing as the solid base of all his work.
Michael Cull has taken part in many prestigious exhibitions including the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, the Discerning Eye, the Sunday Times Watercolour open, the Pastel Society and many more. He has taken part in a number of mixed exhibitions as well as solo and two person exhibitions.
Michael's work can be found in many private collections both in the UK and abroad.

ARTISTS STATEMENT
"a painting should satisfy both at a distance in terms of unity and composition and at a shorter view where the quality of marks establish both the integrity and sensual (perhaps spiritual) aspect of the work"
CV
2022 Royal Institute of Painters in Watercolours
The Pastel Society Mall Gallery
2019 The Discerning Eye London
2018 Chennies Manor House. One Man Show
2017 Hitchin Open
2015 The Discerning Eye London
2014 PS Arts ‘Work on Paper’. One Man Show
2013 The Discerning Eye London
2011 BP Collins Solicitors Gallery. One Man Show
2008 The Discerning Eye London
2007 The Discerning Eye London
New Maynard Gallery
2006 New Maynard Gallery
2004 Pepperton Gallrey, Selhurst, London ‘Turned on in Venice’
2003 Nexus Gallery, Edinburgh. Three Person Show
The Gallery, Cork Street, London. Two Person Show
1999 The Discerning Eye London
Singer & Friedlander/Sunday Times watercolour competition
1997 The Discerning Eye London
The Art Collection Gallery. One Man Show
1996 Royal Ulster Academy Belfast
Fenny Lodge Gallery. One Man Show
Kings Lynn Art Centre
1994 Rye Art Gallery ‘Artist in Spain’
Bernesga Sala de Art Leon Spain ‘Colectiva de Verano’
Singer & Friedlander/Sunday Times watercolour competition
1993 Singer & Friedlander/Sunday Times watercolour competition
Gagliardi Gallery, Chelsea Summer exhibition
The Square Gallery Highgate London. One Man Show
St Albans Art, St Albans Cathedral
1992 Singer & Friedlander/Sunday Times watercolour competition
1984 Royal Academy Summer Exhibition
1982 Society of Graphic Artists Mall Gallery
Luton Art Gallery
Handmade Gallery St Albans The Art of Drawing. One Man Show
1981 Luton Art Gallery
Highgate Literary and Scientific Institution. One Man Show
1980 Luton Art Gallery
1979 British Artists, Bilan de l’Art Contemporain Paris
Royal Academy Summer Exhibition
1978 Royal Academy Summer Exhibition
1977 Handmade Gallery St Albans. One Man Show

Quote

"Creativity takes courage" Henri Matisse

"Drawing is the most intimate of the visual arts" Michael Cull

Interests

Visiting the major galleries and exhibitions of course.
Popular science and the mysteries of the quantum physics.
Travelling and exploring other cultures.

Accepts Commissions?

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