This site shows paintings by Frances Borden, a British artist and STAT-certified Alexander Technique teacher, working in Bampton, Devon, in the South West of England.
News
This painting will be in the Royal Society of Portrait Painters Annual Exhibition at the Mall Galleries in London from Thursday 8th May until Saturday 17th May 2025.
It was previously in the Wells Art Contemporary exhibition of 2021 and the Bath Society of Artists 119th Annual Open exhibition, and has been revised each time.
Title: Caroline Chalk #3
Size: 12.7 x 17.7 cm
Medium: Oil on board
Works
2017 – 2025
In 2018, I started training to teach the Alexander technique. I began a series of portraits of fellow trainees and teachers.
2011 – 2017
1998 – 2014
1994 – 1998
I wanted to make big work at Chelsea College of Art & Design, but couldn’t afford materials or transportation costs.
Because painting felt vulnerable and dangerous like giving birth, I had to leave the communal studio and work at home. After many false starts, I began this series of self-portraits.
1987 – 1994
I began painting when I was 16. It seemed like a way to make things happen.
I got a place on a Foundation Course at 18, but left after a day. I had shingles, therapy, got a job, passed my driving test, wrote extensively and joined another Course when I was 21, by which time I felt aged, but ready to go.
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Prints
6 Blank Greetings Cards
£16
This is a detail from Map (25.4 x 30.4 cm, Oil on board), which was in the Ruth Borchard Self Portrait Prize of 2017.
Card dimensions: 10.4 x 14.7 cm.
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Print on Hahnemühle Paper
£85
This print was produced by the National Portrait Gallery in 2019 to mark 30 years of the BP Portrait Award. The original work (Water, 25.4 x 30.4 cm, Oil on board) was in the Ruth Borchard Self Portrait Prize of 2019.
Print Dimensions: 42.8 x 58.9 cm
Signed, dated and sent in a strong tube.
Price includes postage in the U.K
Print on Hahnemühle Paper
£85
This print was produced by the National Portrait Gallery in 2019 to mark 30 years of the BP Portrait Award. The original work (R, 12.7 x 17.8 cm, Oil on paper) was in the Royal Academy Summer Show of 2019.
Print Dimensions: 42.8 x 58.9 cm
Signed, dated and sent in a strong tube.
Price includes postage in the U.K
Originals
Title: Blue Room #1
£800
Dimensions: 25.4 x 30.4 cm
Medium: Oil on canvas board
Date: 2015
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