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An early work by the artist, created during a period of experimentation in portraiture. This work is one of only 2 paintings of Magda Mamerot, who sat for Foyle in the spring/summer of 2013.

William Foyle is a painter and printmaker, born in Scotland in 1993. Having entered Edinburgh College of Art in 2011, Foyle decided to leave after a short period to follow his own passions as an artist.  

Foyle’s early life was immersed in music, but it was in painting that he found expression for the world around him. As a professional painter he has travelled extensively throughout the British Isles and Europe as a resource for his work. Poetry, Film, cinematography and photography are also all sources of inspiration for the artist.  

At Foyle’s first solo exhibition in London in 2012, Sir Timothy Clifford (1978–1984, Director, Manchester City Art Galleries,1984 -2006, Director, National Galleries of Scotland.) described Foyle as ‘fascinating, with a future worth watching’, and his second solo show at the RCA in 2015, London , Foyle was heralded as the ‘Francis Bacon of tomorrow’. One of the greatest endorsements of his work is an early self-portrait which was purchased in 2016 by the Ruth Borchard Self Portrait Collection, and more recently a painting from Foyle’s ‘Holocaust series’ was on loan to the Russian Holocaust Museum and Tolerance Centre, Moscow in 2020 as part of an exhibition to mark the 75th Anniversary of the liberation of concentrations camps in Eastern Europe.  The artist currently lives and works between London and the Scottish Borders.  

Fine Art at Edinburgh Art College, Painting (BA) - 2011

Landscapes, Asia House, Marylebone, London, curated by Diane Shiach, 2019 and New Works, Royal College of Art, Kensington Gore, London, , curated by Diane Shiach, 2015.

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