Michael Chaplin is a familiar and
distinguished figure in the art world, nationally as well as internationally
for his outstanding talents as a painter, etcher, writer, teacher
and more recently as television personality on the extremely successful
Watercolour Challenge on Channel Four. He is about to embark on
his third series, having entered on a new stage in his teaching
career which now reaches over 2.5 million budding artists a day.
His book Mike Chaplin’s Expressive Watercolours will be published
by Harper Collins in the autumn.
Originally trained at Watford School
of Art where he studied graphic design, Michael went on to complete
a postgraduate course in printmaking at Brighton College of Art.
Whilst at Brighton he was elected as one of the youngest ever
associates of the Royal Watercolour Society, becoming a full member
in 1997. Thus he fulfilled a life long ambition to become a professional
painter, a desire he conceived from the age of 12. In both painting
and printing Michael remains a figurehead of the British scene,
with his work held in both private and public collection world
wide. He continues to teach and run residential schools throughout
Britain and further afield, this year in Lucca.
