COLIN FAILES Cert RA Sch.

1949            Born in London

1965/67            Design draughtsman apprentice, Delapena Ltd, Cheltenham

1968/69            Studio Assistant to Donald Pass, Cert FIA Sch Painter

1969/72            City & Guilds of London Arts School (Sculpture)

            Awarded the Beckwith Travel Scholarship

1973/76            Post-Graduate (Sculpture), Royal Academy Schools

ONE PERSON EXHIBITIONS

1977/78            Heatherley Gallery, London

1981            Tuttons, Covent Garden

1982            Drawings, South of the Border, Waterloo

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

1974/75            Royal Academy Summer Show

            Glasgow Art Gallery

            Bedford House Gallery, London

1980            Royal Academy Summer Show

1983            Jonathan Poole Gallery, Now York

1987/88            Royal Academy Summer Shows (sculptures)

1998            Reynolds Club Exhibition, Royal Academy Schools

COMMISSIONS

1979/80            Sculptors for film productions of 'The Waking', The French Lieutenant's Woman', ' Omen Three' and 'Inchon'

1984/85            Private & Commercial murals including: ceiling, Hamiltons Brasserie, London:

            Health & Leisure Club, Rembrandt Hotel, London

1986            Mural and trompe l'oeil works, figurative sculpture

1989/90            Mural works: Vanbrugh Club: Yvonne Arnaud Theatre, Guildford:

            Mural & trompe l'oeil works at Key West, Florida

1991            Private mural works

1992            Mural pictures, Tewkesbury Nursing Home

            Trompe l'oeil, Arlington House AHA

1992/93            Paintings and sculptures for private collection

            Trompe l'oeil work for Arlington House, London

1994            The Oriana Art Collection, P&O Cruises Limited

1995            Mural Commission "Swan Room", Vintner's Company, City of London

1996            Private mural works. Mural for Bridge Housing Association.

1997/8            Murals for L&G Insurance Ascot and Sandown Park

1998            Private commissions, mural for Community Housing Association, London.

 
 
     
   

At Trickeye, we have been creating trompe l'oeil and other murals for client like these for over twenty years:


Vanbrugh club

Yvonne Arnaud Theatre Guildford.

Private hotel, Key West U.S.A.

P&O Cruises Ltd. The cruise liner” Oriana”.

Vintners Company, City of London.

Legal & General Insurance.

Claridges Hotel, London.

Distillers Company, City of London.