FLETCHER SIBTHORP has been capturing the essence of dance in his paintings and drawings for the last seventeen years starting with his collaboration with Sadlers Wells to create a painting for the flamenco troupe Paco Pena. Since then the list of flamenco dancers Fletcher has captured is like a who's who of flamenco including Eva Yerbabuena, Sara Baras and Maria Pages.
His solo show at London's Cork Street in 2005 was a great success with major works breaking into five figures.
For the next five years contemporary dance and ballet became the main focus for Fletcher. In 2006, after becoming runner up the year before, he won Fine Art Trade Guild's best selling artist award.
The Royal Ballet invited him to attend dress rehearsals and an exhibition of the artworks was held at Medici Gallery, Cork Street in 2007. Many famous names in dance attended; Darcey Bussell, Alina Cojacaru, Ed Watson and Sarah Lamb, to name a few.
So impressed with the paintings Fletcher had produced of her, Darcey Bussell invited him to attend her last rehearsal of her final performance with The Royal Ballet, Song of the Earth - the only artist to be offered such a privileged invitation. Reference gathered at this rehearsal was used for the painting ‘Darcey in Three Movements' created especially at Darcey's request, to hang in the dance studio named in her honour at The Royal Ballet School, Richmond Park. As an indication of his dedication to capturing dance, The Royal Ballet School made him Artist in Residence in 2010.
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