Biography

Platt studied at York School of Art from 1979-80 before being accepted into St Martin’s College of Art, London, where he studied until 1983. He comes from an artistic family with both parents previous students of the Royal College of Art, London. Platt’s work encompasses portraiture as well as large seascapes, still-lifes and nudes. Platt has stated that his approach to the human subject is influenced by the painterly tradition of the Old Masters.