John-Paul Tibbles - Hailsham, East Sussex, United Kingdom
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Jean-Paul Tibbles Describes His Experiences with Silver Brushes
"I was introduced to Silver Brush brushes in 2002 as a prize at the Portrait Society of America in Philadelphia. Having just recently revisited the US I was pleased to be able to buy some more as they were not readily available in England where I live.
Long flat hog and sable riggers are the types of brushes I use. The Silverstone 1101 flat and Grand Prix 1001 flat hog brushes with Renaissance 7107 sables are excellent for me working in oils. Each new brush can be relied upon to have the same excellent quality allowing their use to be instinctive.
When new, the hog brushes are wonderfully fine and soft but with good spring, as they gradually mature, they change character, always in a reliably consistent way holding good shape and becoming a brush with a more textured stroke. With the brushes I have mentioned in various sizes and ages I have a complete tool kit with which to work."
Cleo - Jean-Paul Tibbles
Royal Society of Portrait Painters Changing Faces Award - 2005
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Nicole-Anne Tryptich- Jean-Paul Tibbles
Portrait Society of America
International Competition
First Honor and Peoples Choice - 2003
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Self Portrait - Jean-Paul Tibbles
Second Place Portrait Society of America International Competition - 2002
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Portrait by Jean Paul Tibbles
Winner of the Draper Prize of the Portrait Society of America
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Jean-Paul Tibbles and his work
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Jean Paul lives in the United Kingdom, in the Market town of Hailsham, East Sussex. Straight out of Eastbourne Art College in 1979, he went to work as an illustrator in London.
Over 20 years he has produced illustrations for most of the British advertising agencies and book companies and has been commissioned from around the world including France, Germany, Sweden, Japan, Singapore, Ireland, Canada and the USA.
For Penguin books he illustrated the works of F. Scott Fitzgerald, Beryl Bainbridge, Andrew Motion and Kingsley Amis. In America, amongst others he has worked for Penguin books, The New Yorker, American Girl and Land's End.
Since 2000 Jean Paul has devoted his time to portrait painting, with work accepted for exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery, London, The Royal Society of Portrait Painters in the United Kingdom and in the USA, he has been a finalist in the Portrait Society of America International
Competition three times. Currently his work is on exhibition at the Andreeva Gallery in Santa Fe.
