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ABOUT THE ARTIST Baz has been painting since the age of 4 and signwrote his first commercial sign when he was 15. After a period as a painter in the Royal Air Force and the civilian spraying industry, he retrained to master his first love of signwriting. It was while at college that he was introduced to heraldry as an art form; the lecturers had the same enlightened approach as the pre-20th century artisans that all signwriters should have a working knowledge of the subject. He had been brought up to see heraldry as a normal part of life by a grandfather and great uncle who told him stories about ancient family heraldry, ancestral castles, religious and political disputes, peerages and the College of Arms. The reintroduction to the subject as a mature student catapulted him onto the heraldic stage within a matter of a few brief years.
ACHIEVEMENTS, APPOINTMENTS & NOTABLE COMMISSIONS
1985-87 Hammersmith and West London College, City and Guilds Signwork, Ordinary and Advanced courses, achieved ‘Distinction’ at every level.
1989 Elected to full Craft Membership of the Society of Heraldic Arts.
1990-91 Produced the Tourist Exhibitions for Clwyd County Council featuring the heraldry of each North Wales Council. Due to its success a second was commissioned to tour Continental Europe and feature in the 1991 Eisteddfod.
1990 First commissions received on the recommendation of the College of Arms.
1991 Appointed heraldic artist to the Honourable Society of Lincoln’s Inn. Elected onto the Council of the Society of Heraldic Arts. Has been re-elected to remain ever since. Edited the S.H.A. Newsletter and turned it into The Heraldic Craftsman.
1994 Became heraldic artist for the Empire Test Pilots’ School, Royal Air Force.
1996 Attended the Artists’ Workshop at the 22nd Congress of Genealogical and Heraldic Sciences, Ottawa as the guest of the Canadian Heraldic Authority. Work exhibited in the Canadian Museum of Civilisation, Ottawa. Received the Burnett-Weston Prize for Excellence in Heraldic Art.
1996-98 Commissioned to paint a series of the arms of the 15 British Prime Ministers who have been members of Lincoln’s Inn over the past 3 centuries. These now hang in the Great Hall of Lincoln’s Inn.
1998 Received the first direct commissions from heralds at the College of Arms. Became shield maker to the Worshipful Company of Gunmakers. Organised the Heraldic Art Exhibition for the Heraldry Society Congress in Gloucester. The work of over 20 artists exhibited.
1999 Appointed heraldic artist to the House of Lords. Became shield maker to the High Sheriffs of Oxfordshire.
2000 Appointed heraldic artist to the Dean of Windsor Castle. Became shield painter to the Royal Household for the Most Noble Order of the Garter at Windsor Castle. Elected to the Council of the Heraldry Society.
2004 Appointed heraldic artist to the Worshipful Company of Goldsmiths. Heraldic artist, shield painter and signwriter to the Speaker of the House of Commons. Heraldic artist to the Honourable Society of Gray’s Inn.
PUBLICATIONS
1988 Contributed text and photos of his own heraldic signs and shields to Signwork, A Craftsman’s Manual Volume 2 by Bill Stewart.
1991-95 Editor of The Heraldic Craftsman. Further periods as editor followed this.
1992 A Guernsey Armorial in The Heraldic Craftsman.
2000 The Old Panels of Lincoln’s Inn, a slide and photographic catalogue of the heraldic panels from 1742-1901. Private publication for the Inn.
2002 Contributed text and photos to The Complete Book of Heraldry by Stephen Slater.
2004 The 4th Heraldic Armory of Lincoln’s Inn, a full catalogue of the vast amount of heraldry within the Inn, by name and blazon with extensive notes and dozens of pages of cross referenced indexes. Private publication on CD for the Inn.
2005 The High Sheriffs of Oxfordshire, an armorial of their arms within the Oxford Crown Court, illustrated, in The Heraldry Gazette. |
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