Alastair Christian Adams

Alastair Adams (born 1969 in Kingston Upon Thames) is an English artist best known for portraiture. He lives and works in Rutland.

Life and work Alastair studied painting at Hugh Baird College, Bootle and also at De Montfort University graduating in 1992. He was elected as a member of the Royal Society of Portrait Painters in 2002, became Treasurer in 2005 and President in 2008. Between 2002 and 2017 he held a research based post, lecturing in Illustration at Loughborough University.

Alastair's work can be found in numerous public and private collections, including a portrait of ex Prime Minister, Sir Tony Blair for the National Portrait Gallery, London and Princeton University Art Museum. He has donated 3 works of art to the People's Portrait Collection housed at Girton College, Cambridge. In 2020 Alastair joined a number of artists who pledged via social media to paint portraits of nominated NHS key workers for the Portraits for NHS Heroes art project during the COVID pandemic. He is a Trustee of the Federation of British Artists.

Notable portraits Since 2015, Alastair has been commissioned to paint a number of portraits for Yale University, New Haven, USA including two portraits of Chief Investment Officer David Swensen, and posthumous works of Carolyn Slayman, Dorothy Horstmann and Katherine Lustman. Tony Blair Sir Alastair Cook Nick Frost Bruce Robinson