June Mendoza, A.O., O.B.E., R.P., R.O.I., Portrait Painter

Member of Royal Society of Portrait Painters (R.P), Royal Institute of Oil Painters (R.O.I.), Hon Member of Society of Women Artists
O.A. Officer of Australia
Hon.d.Litt - University of Bath
Hon.d.Litt - Loughborough University
Freeman of the City of London

Parents: John Morton, musician and Dot (née) Mendoza, musician, composer etc., violin and piano respectively

Married: Keith Mackrell, formerly Director of Shell International and non-executive Director for various organisations
Four children: three daughters (Elliet, Kim, Lee) and one son, (Ashley)

As a child toured with mother - opera, ballet, musicals, revue etc.,. Worked in small mime parts and crowd scenes with de Basil Russian Ballet Company and sketched during class, rehearsals and performances.

By 12 years old, art was the obvious and unquestioned direction. Started life classes at 14.

By 17 was doing book jackets, magazine illustrations, town-planning exhibition artwork, record sleeves, some portraits and a monthly illustrated cops, robbers, guns, bosoms strip! Began professionally as an actress: theatre (West End), radio, film, TV etc.

Painting/portraiture took over and became full-time.

Two overseas postings with husband:

1960 - 1965 Philippines and 1969 - 1973 Australia
Extensive work and travel overseas

The story is best told by following list of people with whom I have worked, in a wide variety of fields and countries:

Royalty Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II (twice) HM Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother Princess Royal - for the Royal Scots HRH Diana Princess of Wales (twice) HRH The Duke of Edinburgh - for Lord Taverners HRH the Prince of Wales (three times) HRH Prince Edward Earl Mountbatten of Burma (1900-1979) HRH The Duchess of Kent His Grace the Duke of Norfolk, Earl Marshal of England Religious Leaders Frederick Donald Coggan, Baron Coggan - 101st Archbishop of Canterbury 1974 - 1980 Robert Runcie, Baron Runcie of Cuddesdon, 102nd Archbishop of Canterbury 1980 - 1991 Rt Hon George Carey, 103rd Archbishop of Canterbury, 1991 - 2002 James Thompson - Bishop of Bath and Wells Members of the Armed Forces Major General Bob Menzies - Royal Army Medical Corps Major General David Joliffe - Royal Army Medical Corps Major General Anthony Shaw - Royal Army Medical Corps Field Marshal Edwin Bramall, Baron Bramall KG Baron Inge KG - Green Howards (painted twice) General Sir Peter Whiteley Law Baroness Hale of Richmond - legal academic, barrister and judge Daniel Hollis QC Donald Keating QC Group portrait of the Temple Judges Music, Opera and Ballet Performers, Conductors and Composers Sir Mark Philip Elder - British conductor Dame Emma Kirkby Andrzej Panufnik - composer Andrew Van Der Beek - serpent player and founder of the Lacock Summer School Barry Tuckwell - horn player Christopher Monk - serpent maker and player Sir John Dankworth and Dame Cleo Lane Roger Vignoles, British pianist and accompanist Wayne Marshall - Organ, piano, conductor Karl Jenkins - composer Dr Antal Dorati - conductor Dr Jane Glover - musicologist and conductor Edward Fitzgibbon - lute maker and player Dame Elizabeth Maconchy DBE - English composer Gerald Moore CBE - pianist Gyorgy Pauk - Hugarian violinist Jacqueline du Pre OBE - British Cellist Larry Adler - harmonica player Leon Goossens - British oboist (1897-1988) Madeline Bell - African-American soul singer Malcolm Williamson CBE - Australian composer Marguerite Wolff - Pianist Sir Michael Tippett - English Composer Paul Tortelier - French cellist Wayne Marshall - organist, pianist, conductor Yehudi Menuhin - American violinist and conductor James Galway - flautist Stephane Grappelli Sir Thomas Allen Kangaroo Moon - Celtic and Australian Folk band Sir Charles Groves - British conductor Eric Fenby OBE Sir Lennox Berkley - Composer (1903 - 1989) Sir Malcolm Arnold CBE - Composer Sir Richard Rodney-Bennett - Composer Tony Palmer - Composer and Film Director Sir Charles Mackerras - conductor Georg Solti - Conductor (1912-1997) Sir Colin Davis - Conductor Terry Edwards - Former Chorus Master, Royal Opera House Opera Dame Eva Turner - Opera Singer Francois Leroux - Opera Singer Ian Partridge - tenor Geraint Evans - Opera Singer Gwynne Howell - Opera Singer James Bowman - countertenor Jessye Norman - Opera Singer Joan Sutherland - Opera Singer Dame Joan Sutherland and Richard Bonynge - Opera singer and Conductor Ballet Dame Beryl Grey - Royal Ballet Ninette de Valois - Founder of the Royal Ballet Dame Marie Rambert (Rambert Ballet) Agnes Oaks and Thomas Edur - English National Ballet Sir Peter Wright - Director Birmingham Royal Ballet Sports personalities Sir Alec Bedser and Eric Bedser - cricket Chris Evert - former World No. 1 woman tennis player USA Virginia Wade - former champion tennis player UK Group portraits The House of Commons in session (440 portraits) for the House of Commons The House of Representatives (170 portraits) for New Parliament Building, Canberra The Council of the Royal College of Surgeons (34 portraits) The Presidents of the Institution of Electrical Engineers (53 portraits) The Temple Judges (5 portraits)

Politicians and Statesmen Heads of State Baroness Margaret Thatcher - former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, 1979 to 1990 Sir John Major - former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom 1990 to 1997 Corazon Aquino - Former President of the Philippines Lee Kwan Yew - first Prime Minister of modern Singapore Goh Chok Tong - Prime Minister of Singapore The Hon Sir John Gorton, the former Prime Minister of Australia Politicians and Statesmen Lord Geoffrey Howe Rt Hon Baroness Betty Boothroyd Anne Widdecombe - British Conservative politician Yong Pung How - Chief Justice of Singapore Lord Jeffrey Archer of Weston Super Mare House of Commons in session 1986/7 The Rt Hon Lord Gardiner, the then Lord Chancellor of England Government Dame Stella Rimington, DCB - former Director-General of MI5 Lady Valerie Kingman, High Sheriff of Bristol Derek Wallis Sir John Chalstrey - Lord Mayor of London Councillor John Steele - Mayor of Winchester Mansion House Banquet Reception Line Broadcasting and Entertainment Alistair Cooke KBE - British-American journalist and broadcaster Floella Benjamin OBE - British television presenter Miss Bluebell (of Paris Lido) Angela Rippon OBE - British television journalist Rolf Harris CBE - musician, artist, television host Roy Plomley OBE - English radio broadcaster Sir Robin Day OBE - British political broadcaster Sir Terry Wogan - radio and television broadcaster Tom Stoppard (playwright) Richard Curtis - writer Verity Lambert OBE - British television and film producer Theatre & Art Sir Alan Ayckbourn CBE - playwright Alwen Harris - artist Christopher Fry - dramatist Anita Harris - actress, singer and entertainer Sir Donald Sinden - actor Janie Dee - actress, singer Max Wall - actor, comedian Penelope Keith - actress Sammy Cahn - lyricist Sammy Davis Jr - singer, entertainer Sheridan Morley - writer, theatre critic and entertainer David Threlfall (actor - Shameless) and Stephen Threlfall (music director/conductor) Zoe Wanamaker - actress John Amis - broadcaster, writer and classical music critic Felix Aprahamian - music critic and writer (twice painted) David Cairns - writer and music critic Ken Loach - film director P. D. James, Baroness James of Holland Park OBE - crime fiction writer and life peer Gerald Scarfe - cartoonist and illustrator Ken Howard - English artist and painter Patrick Macallister - artist on selection day Academia Professor Alan Ryan - Oxford University Professor Anthony Kelly - Surrey University Professor Arthur Lucas - Principal, King's College Sir Denis Rooke O.M. - Loughborough University Lord Briggs of Lewes - Open University Professor Brenda Gourley - Vice-Chancellor of the Open University Dr Michael Berry - Christ's College, Canterbury Professor Patrick J. Dowling - Surrey University A.J.P. Taylor - Historian, writer, broadcaster John Ashworth - London School of Economics Medicine Prof Sir Cyril Chantler - Guys and Kings Sir George Alberti - Royal College of Physicians Dr John Beynon - former principal of King's College Sir Norman Browse - St Thomas's Hospital, London Council of the Royal College of Surgeons Business/Industry Maarten van den Bergh - Lloyds TSB (2006) Alan Harper - Baltic Exchange Peter Tudball - Baltic Exchange Angela Yeoman - Foster Yeoman Limited Sir Dennis Rooke - British Gas Sir Richard Giordano - British Gas Sir Eddie George - Bank of England George Paul - Norwich Union Freddy Heineken Lord Marshall - British Airways Maarten Van Den Bergh - Shell Michel De Carvalho Sir Niall Fitzgerald - chairman of Unilever Suliman S. Olayan Robert Steele Simon Murray Lord Stanley Kalms - DSG International plc

Lectures:

Galleries, art institutions and societies in England, USA, Australia and Far Eastern countries. 'Lectures' are more precisely 'talks' on attitudes, approach, with anecdotes and an informal duologue with the audience which helps provide relevant material and at audience level and encourages participation.

Art criticisms, feature articles for art magazines, and television e.g. a half hour feature combining the painting of a portrait and dialogue with sitter, TV and radio commentary, news interviews etc., radio interviews, exhibition judging and openings.

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