Max White AROI

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Max (b 1998) began painting oils in his spare time at 13 after spending most of his childhood drawing. His interest in the practice of figurative painting did not diminish and he began selling works through a local gallery at 16 and continued to do so whilst studying architecture from 2016 at Cardiff University, where he graduated in 2019. After graduating, he decided to make painting his priority and became a full time artist in 2021.

Painting for Max is about holding onto moments where he experiences something profound; a powerful feeling that usually arises from the landscape, although he finds subjects everywhere from the west end of London to his kitchen. His paintings can take weeks or months to complete, over that time he fights a battle with the paint surface to translate and preserve the emotion he experienced when he first saw the subject.

Max’s paintings have gathered significant praise in past few years. In 2024 he was awarded “Artist of The Year” by The Circles of Art foundation. In 2023 he was awarded the 1st prize Winsor and Newton Young Artist Award by the Royal Institute of Oil Painters. In 2022 he won the Next Generation Award at the Royal Society of Marine Artists Exhibition, and the Green and Stone Prize for a painting from Chelsea Arts Society. This gave him the opportunity to put on a solo exhibition of work at the Gallery at Green and Stone in Chelsea, which was eventually held in May 2024. In 2021, he was awarded both the Emerging Artist award and the 3rd place Winsor and Newton Young Artist Award at the Royal Institute of Oil Painters exhibition. He is currently a member of the Wapping Group of artists and is an Associate of Chelsea Arts Society as of 2024.

Examples of work