Arabella Dorman Painter England 1975

Arabella Dorman (England 1975) is an award-winning, internationally renowned artist and one of Britain’s leading portrait painters. Dorman has painted members of the Royal family, senior military personnel and other high profile individuals.As an officially accredited British war artist, Dorman has worked across the Middle-East since 2006. She has been embedded with the British Army in Iraq (2006) and Afghanistan (2009 - 2013). Her humanitarian work has taken her to Gaza, Palestine & Israel (2017) Lebanon, Syria (2018) and most recently, Ukraine (2023). Dorman's work explores the realities of modern conflict, its immediate impacts and long-term consequences, and the light that can be born out of the darkness of war. Dorman is an expedition artist. Her work has taken her across deserts and mountains in pursuit of the vanishing world, revealed and eroded by ice and sand. Accompanied by explorers Rosie Stancer & Pom Oliver, Dorman recently walked across the Sinai Peninsula, Egypt, sleeping under the stars, living and travelling with the Bedouin and their camels. The three women are currently working towards a further expedition across Saudi Arabia in 2024.
Dorman enjoys a prominent reputation as a public speaker and fundraiser. She has been listed in BBC’s Top 100 Women and Salt Magazine’s 100 Most Inspiring Women, and was awarded winner of the Global Mosaic Award, and Oman Masterpiece 2021. Over the past two decades, Dorman’s paintings and humanitarian work have been profiled across international and national media; television, radio and print, including The New York Times, BBC, CNN, Aljazeera, Radio 4, BBC World Service, and featured on the front cover of The Times, The Guardian and The Sunday Times Magazine.
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