Akash Bhatt RBA RWS
Akash Bhatt RBA RWS was born in Leicester in 1972 and studied at Loughborough College of Art, the University of Westminster and St Martin's School of Art.
Akash Bhatt RBA RWS is a member of the Royal Society of British Artists and the Royal Watercolour Society.
Akash has exhibited widely in many group exhibitions including The BP Portrait Award, The Sunday Times Watercolour exhibition and currently in the Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize.
Bhatt’s work and process are informed by his sketchbooks and notebooks filled with notes and drawings from observations and drawings of everyday imagery and objects.
Education
1991–92 Loughborough College of Art—Foundation Studies
1993–96 University of Westminster
1996–98 St Martins School of Art—Post Graduate Diploma
Awards
2015 1st Prize Sunday Times Watercolour Exhibition
2010 London Lives 1st Prize Network Rail/Cass Arts/Bankside Gallery, London
Penguin Prize, Sunday Times Watercolour Competition
2008 Elected Member of the Royal Society of British Artists
2007 Purchase Prize Discerning Eye Mall Galleries
Winsor & Newton Painting Award RBA Mall Galleries
2005 Regional Award Discerning Eye Mall Galleries
2004 Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer Purchase Prize
2002 The Villiers David Prize
Third Prize, Singer & Friedlander/Sunday Times Watercolour Competition
1999 Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation Award
BP Portrait Award Finalist, Commended
1997 BP Travel Award
Solo Exhibitions
2017 Madhu, Beaux Arts Bath
2015 New Paintings, Beaux Arts Bath
2013 New Paintings, Beaux Arts Bath
2011 New Paintings, Beaux Arts Bath
2010 Street Life Drawing, Beaux Arts Bath
2009 Just Walk, Beaux Arts Bath
2007 New Paintings, Beaux Arts Bath
2006 New Paintings, Beaux Arts Bath
Made in Cuba, Rebecca Hossack Gallery, London
2003 PNG: The Big Payback, Rebecca Hossack Gallery, London
2001 Indi-gestion, Rebecca Hossack Gallery, London
1998 Out of Fiji, BP Travel Award, Touring Exhibition, National Portrait Gallery, London, Aberdeen Art Gallery, Scotland
Group Exhibitions
2020 Trinity Buoy Wharf drawing Prize Exhibition, Trowbridge, Dundee, London & Bournemouth
A Narrative, The Gallery, Holt, Norfolk
2019 Derwent Art Prize Exhibition, London
2017 RBA Mall Galleries, London
2016 The Discerning Eye Prize Winners show, Temple, London
2012–15 Sunday Times Watercolour, Mall Galleries, London
2011 ROI Mall Galleries, London RBA Mall Galleries, London