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Charles Willmott
Born in Stratford-upon-Avon, the only son of an artist and metal craftsman, Charles Willmott’s artistic talent was noted at an early age. Although he is mainly self taugh .... more
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Charlotte Atkinson
Charlotte was born in the great naval city of Plymouth in 1973 and grew up with a natural fascination for the sea. After training to be an illustrator at the University o .... more
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Chris Bennett
Chris Bennett was born in London in 1957 and studied at the Slade School of Fine Art in the early 80s under Euan Uglow, Geoffrey Camp and Phil Sutton. He has exhibited re .... more
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David Farrant
Born in London in 1938, David Farrant has built a reputation as one of the finest painters of portraiture in the country. Following his training at St. Martin’s, London, .... more
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David Shepherd
David Shepherd - "to start with, my life was a series of disasters". Growing up in the 1930’s, his one ambition was to be a game warden in Kenya and so, on leaving school .... more
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Dean Kendrick
I was born in Birmingham in 1970, the middle son of three children and from a very early age and throughout my school years I loved to draw and paint. After studying at B .... more
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Domenech
I was born in Barcelona in 1952, and i come from a working class family. My grandfather together with my father, had a little carpenter’s workshop in the centre of Barcel .... more
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Douglas Hofmann
The paintings of Douglas Hofmann have been critically acclaimed for their glowing surfaces, sumptuous details and softly lighted forms. Douglas Hofmann expertly combines .... more
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Drew Darcy
Born in Shrewsbury in 1976 I am the eldest of twin boys. Being the son of a doctor and a nurse, I always felt in safe hands right from the start. My artistic flare may we .... more
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Eve Arnold
Eve Arnold began photographing while working at a photo-finishing plant in New York City in 1946. In 1954, Arnold's fresh quality and intelligent choice of subject matter .... more
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Fabian Perez
Fabian was born in Buenos Aires in 1967 and brought up in the small but dynamic Argentinian city of Campana 50 miles outside the capital. From the age of nine he felt at .... more
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Gordon King
Born 6th June 1939, Gordon spent most of his early childhood on the Fife coast of Scotland before moving south of the border to Reading in Berkshire.As a child his talent .... more
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Hamish Blakely
I come from a theatrical background. I'm half Irish and my childhood home was a place where extraordinary things happened. It was an environment where my brothers and I s .... more
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Ibanez
Andres Garcia Ibanez has always dreamed of being an artist. His mother recalls that he had started to paint even before he could walk! His grandfather, who was considered .... more
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Jack Vettriano
Born in Scotland in 1951, Vettriano left school at sixteen to become a mining engineer in the local coalfields. For his twenty-first birthday a girlfriend gave him a set .... more
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Janet Treby
The youngest of four children I was born in London in 1955 and grew up in a small country village in Bedfordshire. I have always loved the countryside and I have a great .... more
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Jeff Cornell
American Artist, Jeff Cornell has created a unique style through his imagery. The care and attention to his figurative work allows us to reflect upon the private view tha .... more
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Jennine Parker
My work expresses a passion to create movement, shape and texture.The female form imaginatively evoked through curves and shapes. Ideas eveolve from all aspects of life a .... more
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John Meyer
Born in Bloemfontein on 13 August 1942, he spent his formative childhood years in Klerksdorp, a small Highveld mining town west of Johannesburg in what is now Gauteng Pro .... more
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John Mould
John Mould was born in 1958 and grew up in the small village of Barlaston in Staffordshire. As a child, John Mould's fascination for animals grew with him, and where poss .... more
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John Waterhouse
"Many things inspire me to paint - from walking the fields and woodlands that surround the area where I live, to simply watching people going about their daily lives. New .... more
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Joy Kirton Smith
Joy Kirton-Smith inspiration stems from her interest in capturing the aesthetic qualities of the human form. To this end, her current images combine a contrast between fo .... more
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Kay Boyce
Kay Boyce was born in Sheffield and studied illustration at college for four years before working as a freelance illustrator producing editorial work for Woman’s Weekly, .... more
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Laurence Llewelyn Bowen
Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen is the UK’s premier celebrity designer and artist. His unique personal approach fuses contemporary minimalism with the glamour of styles gone by, .... more
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Mark Holland Hicken
An artist has to paint what he or she is passionate about - and I am passionate about beauty and emotion. For me there is nothing else in nature that brings these two tog .... more
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Mark Rowbotham
An accomplished artist from an early age, Mark gained a degree in Fine Art from Epsom Art College. .... more
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Mark Spain
Mark Spain trained in technical graphics at Medway College of Art before setting up a printmaking studio in Kent producing original etchings. In October 1987 Mark was com .... more
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Melissa Mailer Yates
I purposefully avoided art college as I was unsure about becoming a part of the great out-wash that appeared to be the end product of the system. In hindsight I believe I .... more
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Michael Jackson
I was born in 1961 in the North West of England and educated at Preston High School. As a boy I was very interested in drawing and regularly won awards for my art.As a bo .... more
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Nel Whatmore
Nel Whatmore is currently married to the writer Mark Morris and they have two children David and Polly. Mark writes in the mornings and Nel Whatmore paints in the afterno .... more
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Paul Kavanagh
Formal art training for me has always been sporadic and somewhat varied. Having been offered a place at art college I chose instead to do a degree in History and Educatio .... more
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Rajinder Kumar
Artist's work available to buy - Biography not available. .... more
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Rob Hefferan
Born in Manchester in 1968, Rob was a true free spirit from the very beginning. Desperate to follow an artistic career he found discouragement round every corner, with th .... more
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Robert Heindel
Robert Heindel was born in 1938 and has had an obsession with dance for nearly two decades. Out of sessions in the rehearsal rooms of dance companies such as The Royal Ba .... more
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Robert Lenkiewicz
Robert Lenkiewicz was born in 1941 of Jewish parents who were refugees settled in England.
His formative years were spent in a small hotel in Kilburn, London where hi .... more
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Rolf Harris
Although Rolf Harris is best known for his enormous TV paintings, artwork and his on-screen cartoons, he has a serious background in fine art and has exhibited at the pre .... more
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Russell Flint
He was a much loved landscape painter and watercolourist, who is most famous for his female nudes. As an artist Russell Flint was much respected by his contemporaries. Th .... more
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Sergio Mooro
From the age of five I have felt an urge to create. Inspired by the beautiful yellow paper in my father's special edition of Encyclopaedia Britannica, I felt compelled to .... more
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Sherree Valentine Daines
Sherree was born in Effingham in Surrey. After completing her early education, she studied at the Epsom School of Art, where she undertook a fine art course.
A young, .... more
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Stephen Doig
Stephen Doig is an Artist of considerable talent. Born in Oxford in 1964, his encounter with art began at early age- pencil drawings and colour sketches were the foundati .... more
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Steven Binks
Born in Suffolk in May 1959, Steven Binks studied Graphic Design at Colchester Art School. Since 1979, he has regularly painted watercolours, many of which have been made .... more
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Trudy Good
I suppose the 'artist thing' has always been in my blood as my grandfather was a wildlife painter out in South Africa and my father is a very good landscape artist when h .... more
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Wu Ching Ju
Contemporary Chinese painter and sculptor Wu Ching Ju was born in the tranquil rural setting of Fonglin, Taiwan. She grew up fascinated by the ancient traditions of China .... more
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