Fred Cuming is a contemporary British landscape painter, whose works evoke a neo-romanticism.
Cuming was born in 1930 in London, and from 1945 to 1949 studied at the Sidcup School of Art. He completed National Service, after which he he continued studying at the Royal College of Art until 1955. Here he received an Abbey Minor Scholarship and a Rome Scholarship. In 1978 Cuming's first solo exhibition was held in London at the Thackeray Gallery, and following this his work continued to be exhibited regularly around the United Kingdom and in the United States in later years. Since 1953 his work has also been displayed in numerous group exhibitions. He was honoured in 2001 by being the Royal Academy of Arts Summer Exhibition's featured artist, where an entire gallery was dedicated to his work within the show. Cuming has received several awards, including the Grand Prix Fine Art in 1977, Ingot Industrial Competition prize-winner, Royal Academy House & Garden Award and the New English Art Club Sir Brinsley Ford Prize (1986). In 1974 he was elected Royal Academician (ARA 1969), and he is both a Member of the New English Art Club and an Associate of the Royal College of Art. He lives and works in East Sussex, and his work is held in private collections internationally.
