Patrick Cullen

Patrick Cullen (born 1949) is a British contemporary artist, who since 2023 has been president of the New English Art Club (NEAC).

Biography Patrick Cullen was born in 1949, in Addlestone, Surrey, England. He studied politics and sociology at the University of Bristol, and after graduating decided to focus on painting, having been interested in art since childhood. Among influential tutors he met at Camberwell was Dick Lee, "a wonderful landscape painter and a good teacher too – always ready to do a little sketch on the edge of your life drawing to put you right, or to go to the library to introduce you to the work of some not-so-well-known artist one should acquaint oneself with."

Noted for his landscapes, street scenes as well as portraits, Cullen uses oils, pastels and watercolours, reflecting in his paintings and sketches his travels in Tuscany, Andalucia, Southern France and India.

Cullen was elected a member of The Pastel Society (1990–2003), and in 1997 a Member of the New English Art Club (an organisation he has characterised as "born in reaction to the stuffiness of the Royal Academy"), of which he was elected president in 2023, succeeding Peter Brown in the role. and in 2016 was the winner of the NEAC Critics' Prize, having won many other awards over the decades, including: 1984: Spirit of London Competition, Royal Festival Hall, Prizewinner 1989: Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, The Watercolour Prize 1990: Pastel Society, Daler Rowney Award 1991: Royal Watercolour Society, Abbot and Holder Award 1995: Pastel Society, Daler Rowney Award 2000: Pastel Society Centenary Exhibition, Daler Rowney Award 2001: New English Art Club, The Kathleen Tronson Award 2001: New English Art Club, The Jans Ondaatje Rolls Prize 2003: New English Art Club, The Minto Prize 2004: Royal Watercolour Society, RWS Award 2012: Chelsea Art Society, Painting Prize 2015: Lynn Painter Stainer Prize, Runner-up Prize 2016: The Critics' Prize at the New English Art Club