\n Lizet Dingemans’ painting is among just 51 works selected for the 2026 Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer Portrait Award, currently on display at the National Portrait Gallery in London.\n<\/p>\n
\n Her oil painting of professional artists\u2019 model Mark Turner was chosen from nearly 1,500 entries submitted by artists across 63 countries.\n<\/p>\n
\n Ms Dingemans said: “Mark is a fantastic model.\n<\/p>\n
\n “He has a wonderful, calm presence in the studio that really lends itself to portraiture.\n<\/p>\n
\n “Being selected for the Portrait Award is a huge achievement to me.\n<\/p>\n
\n “It’s probably the most prestigious exhibition you can be part of as a portrait painter, so I’m thrilled to have my work hanging at the National Portrait Gallery.”\n<\/p>\n
\n Now in its 44th year, the Portrait Award is considered one of the most respected platforms for contemporary portrait painting worldwide.\n<\/p>\n
\n Ms Dingemans trained at the Angel Academy of Art in Florence and the London Atelier of Representational Art.\n<\/p>\n
\n She now serves as head tutor at Raw Umber Studios in Stroud.\n<\/p>\n
\n Her work has earned multiple awards from the Royal Society of British Artists and is part of the permanent collection at the European Museum of Modern Art (MEAM) in Barcelona.\n<\/p>\n
\n Other career highlights include being commissioned in 2024 to produce a painting for Amazon Prime Video\u2019s Young Sherlock series and winning the 2025 Gordon Hulson Prize for draftsmanship from the Royal British Artists.\n<\/p>\n
\n Her previous exhibitions span the UK, including the Mall Galleries in London, Beverley Art Gallery, and 9 Duke Street, London.\n<\/p>\n
\n Ms Dingemans’ portrait, along with the other selected works, is on display at the National Portrait Gallery until October 7.\n<\/p>\n
\n The exhibition will then tour to Derby Museum and Art Gallery and The Arc in Winchester until June 2027.\n<\/p>\n
\n Entry to the show is free.\n<\/p>\n
\n Ms Dingemans has been a regular contributor to A&I magazines since 2016.\n<\/p>\n
\n She has also featured in a range of publications, including The Gallery Guide, Art Rabbit, Fad Magazine, Wall Street Magazine and London Magazine.\n<\/p>\n
\n She appeared on Sky Arts\u2019 Portrait Artist of the Year in 2018.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lizet Dingemans’ painting is among just 51 works selected for the 2026 Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer Portrait Award,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":714770,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[6225,6485,6486,1120,96,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-714769","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-design","tag-entertainment","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/714769","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=714769"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/714769\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/714770"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=714769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=714769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=714769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}