Adam Birtwistle is a British painter whose unique portraits of composers and musicians may be found in the National Portrait Gallery.
Adam Birtwistle is the son of composer Sir Harrison Birtwistle and the brother of artist Silas Birtwistle.
He was born in Eton in 1959.
Harrison Birtwistle children: Meet son Adam Birtwistle
He studied sculpting for four years at Chelsea School of Art and then worked for two years at the Arch Bronze Foundry with Ben Kneale after attending schools in the United Kingdom and the United States.
At Dartington Summer School of Music in 1985, he helped design masks and costumes for one of his father’s music theatre productions.
While planning his first one-man show in London with Piano Nobile Fine Paintings in 1986, he took printing classes at the Royal Academy.
Since then, he’s performed solo shows at Piano Nobile on a regular basis and accomplished numerous commissions.
The National Portrait Gallery in London has purchased two paintings by Birtwistle: one of his father, Sir Harrison, and another of Elvis Costello (Declan McManus).
