Francis Hamel (born 1963) is a British painter based in Oxford. He is known for landscapes and portraits. Hamel attended Summer Fields School in north Oxford and Marlborough College, and studied at the Ruskin School of Art (1982-1985) while a student of Magdalen College. In a 1995 Sunday Times article Hamel was quoted as saying that only two others of his 30 contemporaries at the Ruskin School of Art were earning a living as professional painters, and that "the most important thing is just painting pictures all the time. It takes a terribly long time to get even half decent at it. There is also a measure of luck thrown in. At the moment people seem to want to buy the kind of pictures I'm painting." He had sold more than a quarter of the works in his first one-man exhibition by the end of the private view. More information...
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