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British war artist and portrait painter

Arabella Dorman (born 1975 in London)^[1] is a British war artist and portrait painter.^[2][3] She was chosen as one of the BBC's "100 Women" in 2014.^[4]

Life

Dorman was born in 1975 in London.

She studied at the Byam Shaw School of Art in London (since absorbed into Central Saint Martins) and the University of Edinburgh.^[2] She is married to Dominic Elliot.^[2]

In 2006 Dorman was Britain's first official war artist to go to the front line in Iraq^[3] after being invited by Lt Gen Richard Shirreff, who had purchased one of her works.^[5] She started her time in Iraq with the Royal Green Jackets in Basra Palace, where she frequently came under enemy fire, then went to the desert near the Iranian border.^[6] She spent time with British forces in Afghanistan in 2009-2014.

In 2009 she was embedded with 2nd Battalion, The Rifles in S