About
Clementine Hanbury is a contemporary realist painter and draftsman based in London. In 2026, she was appointed Official Artist of the Grenadier Guards to record the ceremonial events. She is the recipient of the De Laszlo Foundation Award (2025), was Highly Commended by the De Laszlo Foundation in 2023, and received Best Portrait of the Year at the Florence Academy of Art in 2019.
Her work is held in private collections across Europe, Asia and North America, and has been exhibited with the Royal Society of Portrait Painters, the New English Art Club, the Hampstead Art Society, and Arcadia Contemporary in New York. In 2022, she exhibited in Paris alongside works by Pablo Picasso, Andy Warhol and Jean Cocteau as the only contemporary painter included in the exhibition.
Trained at the City & Guilds of London Art School and the Florence Academy of Art, Hanbury’s work is characterised by close observation and psychological depth. Working from life and under natural conditions, she creates intimate and nuanced paintings and drawings that explore the human experience.
Exhibitions and Awards
2026
‘The Royal Society of Portrait Painters’ at Mall Galleries, London (England)
2025
‘Green & Stone Gallery Summer Exhibition’, at The Gallery at Green & Stone, London (England)
Received the de Laszlo Foundation Young Artist Award
‘The Self Portrait Prize 2025’, Ruth Borchard Collection, (Online Exhibition)
‘The Royal Society of Portrait Painters’ at Mall Galleries, London (England)
‘Paper, Mirror, Paper’ at The Florence Academy of Art, Florence (Italy)
‘The Art Show’ at Queen Mary Barn, Basingstoke (England)
2024
‘Relative Values, Clementine Hanbury & Daphne Hanbury’ at The Gallery at Green & Stone, London (England)
‘Works on Paper’ at The Gallery at Green & Stone, London (England)
2023
‘Exhibition at Queen Mary Barn’ at Queen Mary Barn, Basingstoke (England)
‘The Royal Society of Portrait Painters’ at Mall Galleries, London (England)
Received ‘Highly Commended’ for the de Laszlo Foundation Award
2022
‘The Royal Society of Portrait Painters’ at Mall Galleries, London (England)
‘Mimesis and the Beau Idèal’ by Rinck x Fromental at Musée d’Orsay, Paris (France)
‘Vis Art Exhibition’ at Palazzo Kut, Vis (Croatia)
‘Hampstead Art Society’ at Fitzrovia Gallery, London (England)
‘New English Art Club’ at Mall Galleries, London (England)
2021
‘Male of the Species’ at Arcadia Contemporary, New York (USA)
‘The Royal Society or Portrait Painters’ at Mall Galleries, London (England)
‘The New English Art Club’ at Mall Galleries, London (England)
‘Hampstead Art Society’ at Fitzrovia Gallery, London (England)
‘Letting Us In: Women of the FAA’ at Florence Academy of Art, Florence (Italy)
‘The Art Trail’ at Harting Village, West Sussex (England)
2020
‘Virtual Student Exhibition’ at The Florence Academy of Art, Florence (Italy)
2019
‘End of Year Exhibition’ at The Florence Academy of Art, Florence (Italy)
Awarded ‘Best Portrait of the Year’
2018
‘End of Year Exhibition’ at The Florence Academy of Art, Florence (Italy)
2017
Received the ‘Printmaking prize for technical excellence’ at City & Guilds of London Art School
Press
‘Who is that? On Self-Portraiture and the Making of the Self’, Q & A with The Pasticheur, February 2026
‘Leisure Painter and The Artist’, May 2025 Issue, advertising Nitram Charcoal, 21st March 2025
Blog for Nitram Charcoal, 11th February 2025
https://nitramcharcoal.com/blogs/blog/clementine-hanbury
Education
2017-2020 - studied painting and drawing at The Florence Academy of Art in Italy
2015-2017 - studied at City & Guilds of London Art School in England (BA degree course)
2014-2015 - studied at City & Guilds of London Art School in England (foundation course)
2016 - assistant at Philip Mould & Company, Panter & Hall Gallery and Watson Westmorland Limited in London, England