About Charles Bone
Charles Bone PPRI, ARCA, Hon FCA is an award winning watercolour artist. He is also known as an author and illustrator, who’s works are in many private collections, including members of the Royal Family.
A lot of his work has also been featured in a number of magazines and been interviewed on national television.
Charles studied at the Royal College of Art and exhibited many watercolours and oils in the Royal Academy. He was later elected to the Royal Institute of Painters in Watercolours and became a Director of the Royal Institute Galleries in Piccadilly.
He was also elected Vice President and President of the Royal Institute for 10 years.
Charles Bone was awarded the Hunting Group Prize for the most outstanding watercolour by a British Artist for that year. He has served as Governor and sometimes Chairman of the Federation of British Artists, and is an honorary member of the Botanical Artists and Medical Art Society.
He has exhibited in the Royal Academy, the new English Art Club, London Group, RBA, Singer and Friedlander and touring exhibitions worldwide. He has also held joint exhibitions with his late wife, the sculptor Sheila Mitchell FRBS both in the UK and Internationally.
