Sophie de Stempel

  • Faculty
  • Alumni, 2002

Biography

Sophie studied painting at the City&Guild School of Art aged 16, then went on to work for Lucian Freud from 1981-1990. She has exhibited at the Albemarle Gallery with Pippa Houldsworth and currently shows at Browse&Darby. For the past 20 years she’s taught at the RoyalDrawingSchool, been in mixed shows curated at the SigmundFreudMuseum and paints daily in her West London studio.

On drawing

Drawing is a passion, I believe many things, ideas, films start by putting pencil to paper. I've always collected drawings and prints; really it's the beginning of understanding how something could be made, the first steps to painting.

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