{{Short description|British artist}} {{pp-semi-indef|small=yes}} {{Use British English|date=February 2019}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2018}} {{Infobox person | name = Teddy McDonald <!-- include middle initial, if not specified in birth_name --> | image = Teddy-M-Artist-Italia-Independent-Camo-Photo 29-08-2017.jpg <!-- filename only, no "File:" or "Image:" prefix, and no enclosing brackets --> | alt = <!-- descriptive text for use by speech synthesis (text-to-speech) software --> | caption = | birth_name = <!-- only use if different from name --> | birth_date = <!-- {{birth date and age|df=y|YYYY|MM|DD}} for living people supply only the year with {{Birth year and age|YYYY}} unless the exact date is already widely published, as per WP:DOB. For people who have died, use {{Birth date|df=y|YYYY|MM|DD}}. --> | birth_place = | death_date = <!-- {{Death date and age|df=y|YYYY|MM|DD|YYYY|MM|DD}} (DEATH date then BIRTH date) --> | death_place = | other_names = | occupation = Artist, designer | years_active = | known_for = Contemporary art, design | notable_works = | website = {{URL|https://teddymcdonald.art/}} }} '''Teddy McDonald''' is a British contemporary artist. He has painted guitars used by Ed Sheeran, painted with members of the royal family, and painted a Range Rover Autobiography Art Car.<ref name="gq">{{cite web|last=Quily-Harper|first=Conrad|date=3 June 2016|title=Teddy M on the creation of 'Royal Love' with the Duchess of York and Princesses Beatrice and Eugenie|url=https://www.gq-magazine.co.uk/article/teddy-m-royal-love|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181231105445/https://www.gq-magazine.co.uk/article/teddy-m-royal-love|archive-date=31 December 2018|accessdate=1 February 2019|work=GQ|location=UK}}</ref><ref name=":1" />

==Work== McDonald loaned a guitar named "Green T" to Ed Sheeran, who played it on his X Tour.<ref name=":2">{{Cite web|title=The artist who designed Ed Sheeran's guitar and rubs shoulder with royalty|url=https://www.oxfordmail.co.uk/news/16605494.burford-artists-client-list-includes-ed-sheeran-royalty/|access-date=2020-08-04|website=Oxford Mail|language=en}}</ref> It was one of the first Ed Sheeran items to go to auction, and when Bonhams sold it in December 2015 it doubled its estimate.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.blouinartinfo.com/news/story/1295199/abbas-piano-who-smashed-guitar-ed-sheerans-stratocaster-sell |title=ABBA's Piano, Who Smashed Guitar, Ed Sheeran's Stratocaster Sell in Bonhams Rock Auction |publisher=Blouin Artinfo |date=11 December 2015 |accessdate=2017-01-13 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170116154919/http://www.blouinartinfo.com/news/story/1295199/abbas-piano-who-smashed-guitar-ed-sheerans-stratocaster-sell |archive-date=16 January 2017 |url-status=live }}</ref> Sheeran also commissioned a guitar that was a collaboration between McDonald and New York street artist John Matos aka Crash.<ref name=":2" /> Sheeran played the 'Crash x Teddy M' Fender Stratocaster at the Glastonbury Festival, 2017.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|title=Ed Sheeran headlined Glastonbury Festival 2017 playing a Stratocaster guitar designed by an artist from Bibury|url=https://www.wiltsglosstandard.co.uk/news/15377318.ed-sheeran-headlined-glastonbury-festival-2017-playing-a-stratocaster-guitar-designed-by-an-artist-from-bibury/|access-date=2020-08-04|website=Wilts and Gloucestershire Standard|language=en}}</ref>

McDonald collaborated with Princess Beatrice, Princess Eugenie and Sarah, Duchess of York on a charity project. The members of the royal family, working on the lawn of Royal Lodge in May 2016, added their own 'graffiti' to a painting titled "Royal Love",<ref name="gq" /> which was exhibited at Masterpiece London<ref name="gq" /> and then sold, with proceeds going to Children in Crisis.<ref>{{cite web|author=Michelle Tauber |url=http://people.com/royals/princesses-beatrice-eugenie-and-sarah-ferguson-create-graffiti/ |title=Princesses Beatrice, Eugenie and Sarah Ferguson Create Graffiti |website=People.com |date=22 June 2016 |accessdate=2017-01-13}}</ref>

He created an art car using a Range Rover Autobiography, calling it a "roving sculpture".<ref name="drivetribe.com">{{Cite web|last=|first=|date=2017|title=A RANGE ROVER LIKE NO OTHER: NEW TEDDY M ART CAR REVEALED|url=https://drivetribe.com/p/N42CoElZQEKWPrc2xsZWEg?iid=XIS__3HkSNyxM9EtutqskA|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170222194252/https://drivetribe.com/p/N42CoElZQEKWPrc2xsZWEg?iid=XIS__3HkSNyxM9EtutqskA|archive-date=22 February 2017|access-date=22 February 2017|website=}}</ref>

The Royal Agricultural University commissioned McDonald to create an artwork for permanent display in 2018.<ref name=":1">{{Cite web|last=|first=|date=28 May 2018|title=Rag Week Artwork|url=https://www.rausu.co.uk/articles/rag-week-artwork/|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200228141049/https://www.rausu.co.uk/articles/rag-week-artwork/|archive-date=28 February 2020|access-date=28 February 2020|website=}}</ref>

McDonald has created large scale reverse perspex mounted portraits of Eric Clapton to benefit Clapton's Crossroads Antigua Charity. He has also created reverse perspex mounted portraits of Joan Collins and Sharron Davies.<ref>{{Cite web|last=|first=|date=16 May 2013|title=Sale Of Teddy M's Eric Clapton Portraits To Aid Crossroads Centre|url=https://www.ericclapton.com/news/sale-teddy-ms-eric-clapton-portraits-aid-crossroads-centre-25206|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171230230632/http://www.ericclapton.com/news/sale-teddy-ms-eric-clapton-portraits-aid-crossroads-centre-25206|archive-date=30 December 2017|access-date=2 August 2020|website=}}</ref>

McDonald painted the helmet used by British mountaineer Kenton Cool on his 16th climb of Mount Everest in May, 2022.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Balls |first1=Ed |title=British climber hails 'one of the best days' on Everest after record climb |date=16 May 2022 |url=https://perspectivemag.co.uk/british-climber-hails-one-of-the-best-days-on-everest-after-record-climb/ |publisher=Perspective |access-date=18 May 2022}}</ref>

== Reception == ''GQ'' wrote a profile of McDonald calling him "The Artist to Watch".<ref name="gq" />

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