Ed Brooke-Lawrenson is a painter and portrait artist based in Stroud, Gloucestershire. 

Ed has worked under artists including Damien Hirst and Mitch Griffiths and was a semi finalist in Sky Arts Portrait Artist of the Year 2023. In September 2025 he won the Judge’s Prize for the Theo Paphitis x London Graphics Centre prize. Recent group exhibitions include Shout for Joy at Cirencester Corinium Museum and You Must be Hungry at the Old Courthouse in Stroud, A Leg Up at Centrespace Gallery in Bristol and the most recent solo exhibition Painter Is A Plastic Animal in June 2026.

“My focus at the moment in painting is to capture the effect of light; the way in which it brings form into relief, sculpts a sense of space and seems to have its own presence. I attempt to do this by making images of the people around me whom I love and the material objects that clutter the spaces I inhabit.”

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EDUCATION:

CAMBRIDGE REGIONAL COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE, UK

WINCHESTER SCHOOL OF ART, HAMPSHIRE, UK

ÉCOLE NATIONALE SUPERIÉRE DES BEAUX-ARTS, PARIS, FRANCE

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WORK:

SCIENCE LTD, GLOS, UK

MITCH GRIFFITHS LTD WILTS, UK