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Annora Spence
Born in 1963 Annora Spence studied printed textiles at Liverpool Polytechnic during the early 1980’s and continued her further education by completing an MA in the same subject at Birmingham Polytechnic. Having completed her studies Annora worked as a freelance artist and designer. Since 1990 she has concentrated on her career as a painter and has enjoyed sell-out shows in
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Carl Brenders
Carl was born near Antwerp, Belgium, and has drawn since childhood. He studied at the Fine Arts Academy in Antwerp and later at Berchem. He has produced wildlife illustrations for more that 20 books in a series entitled The Secret Life of Animals. Carl has been included in the Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Museum's prestigious "Birds in Art" show regularly; he
also exhibited in
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Carol Gillan
Carol Gillan was born in Lancashire in 1961 and studied art in Brighton. After working as an illustrator on a variety of projects she finally decided to devote herself to a career as a full time fine artist. Now based in Surrey she paints from a studio in her home and specialises in dramatic and humorous animal portraits.
Carol Gillan's work has been exhibited widely across
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Colin Prior
Colin Prior is one of Britain's leading landscape photographers. His spectacular panoramic images capture the beauty and eternal quality of the world's wild places, especially those of his own native Scotland.
He brings to his work a strong personal vision combined with supreme technical mastery of his chosen medium. Shooting at the 'magic hours' of dawn or dusk, he is able
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David Dancey-Wood
David Dancey-Wood is one of the leading pencil artists in the United Kingdom, specialising mainly in wildlife subject matter. He was born in Bristol and studied at the Bournemouth and Poole Faculty of Art and Design for four years before launching into a career to develop his own unique artistic talents, alongside raising awareness of conservation issues around the
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David Dipnall
David evocative images of restful pastoral scenes of Southern England are well known, epitomising, as they have for years, all that is endearing about traditional art values in English Landscape.
What is not perhaps so widely known is that in the course of achieving that unique sense of 'presence' in his pictures, a sense of being 'home', he travels many miles away from his
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Debbie Gillingham
Debbie was born and raised in a small village in Somerset, surrounded by horses & ponies, which developed her interest in the animal kingdom.
After school Debbie studied at Somerset College of Art and Technology and in 1990 moved to Newmarket in Suffolk to be closer to the horse racing industry, working as a stable hand by day and painting the horses by night.
Although
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Dominique Salm
Dominique Salm was born in Jamaica in 1972, where she spent her early childhood before relocating with her family to Hampshire. Having always been passionate about art and wildlife, Dominique Salm completed an illustration degree and went on to combine her love of both, to build a reputation nationally and internationally as a skilled wildlife artist.
Having painted a wide
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Garry Jones
"I love animals. Animals are everything to me; they are a continuous source of amusement, happiness, sadness and of course inspiration.
My aim is to create humorous, three dimensional cartoon images; I attempt to attribute animals with human characteristics, using word play and common phrases, recalling the old silent movies where moments in time and emotions were captured
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Gary Benfield
Gary Benfield was born Birmingham in 1965. Gary Benfeild studied at Stourbridge college of Art and later Wrexham college of Art. He became a professional freelance illustrator in 1986 and joined the Artist Partner Group.
After leaving the academic world Gary Benfield set up his own studio near London and concentrated on drawing figures. Within a few years his work was
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Gary Hodges
Hodges was born in 1954, and has had a deep love for nature since childhood. In 1979 he began applying his keen sense of observation to his drawings and is now Britain's leading wildlife pencil artist.
Gary Hodges drawings stand out from the crowd because he combines a remarkable technical ability with a deep feeling for the subject and a sensitive understanding of its
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Harriet Dunn
Harriet Dunn is entirely self taught and uses her love of the natural world to create bird and animal sculptures. Her very clever dog sculptures which we show capture all the doggy mannerisms that we
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Huw Williams
When equestrian artist Huw Williams and his wife Jane moved to Scotland in the late 1990s, they were the first couple ever to appear on the hit television programme 'Location, Location, Location'. Huw had grown up in North Wales, studied for a Degree in Art Illustration at the University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne and lived in Leicester and Manchester, and the time felt right to
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Iain S Byrne
Iain is a nature and wildlife photographer based in the north west of England. He is passionate about the natural world and his aim is to present wildlife images to inspire the viewer to seek a closer connection with nature.
From his early childhood, surrounded by the rich wildlife of North Yorkshire he has always thought of himself as being an integeral part our natural
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Joel Kirk
Born in Dorking in 1948 Joels artistic talent became apparent at an early age, when his special gift for portraying wildlife won him a number of competitions and junior art awards. After completing a three-year course at Southend School of Art and Design, Joel immediately turned professional and embarked on a career doing what he loves best; observing the natural world and
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John Arthur
John Arthur was born and brought up in the English market town of Dorking. After leaving school he trained to be a carpenter, following a tradition that had run in his family for generations. While he enjoyed the work however, John felt that something was missing in his life, and that the only way to fill this void was to travel. He therefore worked hard, saved hard and put
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John Knapp-Fisher
John Knapp-Fisher was born in London in 1931. After studying graphic design and typography at Maidstone College of Art, John Knapp-Fisher became involved in exhibition design and theatre design including scene construction and painting.
Turning to full-time painting in 1960, John Knapp-Fisher lived and exhibited from his sea-going fishing boat for five years, exploring the
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Jonathan Truss
Jonathan Truss has always had a fascination for wildlife and his early career as a professional musician and actor complimented his love of oil painting. His works sell well through major wildlife art auctions, exhibitions and galleries both in London, the U.S.A. and Africa. Recent work, which is always in demand, has also gone as far a field as India and New Zealand.
His
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Joy Kirton Smith
Joy found early inspiration in the family painting and decorating business where her father and two brothers were always experimenting with new materials and innovative styles. In particular, their influence was significant in her use of flux and backgrounds that are unique to her style of painting.
After completing A levels, she continued attending college as part of a
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Lesley Thiel
Lesley Thiel is a renowned Equestrian artist. Born and educated in England, she has spent most of her adult life in Germany, Switzerland and the USA.
Having originally trained as a scientist working in medical research, Lesley Thiel descovered her love of horses while visiting a friends Stud in the United States. Despite her early love of painting and drawing, Lesley Thiel
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Madeleine Floyd
Madeline Floyd was born in 1969 and is one of Britain's best loved illustrators and painters. She is best known for her drawings of animals and people that combine a timeless sensitivity with a gentle humour.
Madeline Floyd has an unusually borad talent, minimalist line drawings hang beside evocative watercolours of nudes and still lives whilst oil paintings take their
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Mandie Haywood
Mandie Haywood has always had a great passion for wildlife. Even from the age of five she was writing and illustrating her first set of animal books. Throughout Haywood's teenage years she did a lot of sculpting and studied photography which proved invaluable, as she has had many commissioned photo shoots from private portraits to live concerts.
After leaving school
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Mandy Shepherd
Mandy Shepherd is one artist who simply doesn’t hang around! Her contagious vitality, enthusiasm for life and sense of humour have all contributed to a career that has produced ambition for opportunity. Her portfolio is one of striking contrasts. From proud portraits to delicate watercolours of her wildlife subjects to heavy battleships on military manoeuvres she is one of few
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Mary Ann Rogers
Mary Ann Rogers has consistently been in the top 5 published artists according to the Fine Art Trade Guild.
Mary Ann is a self-taught artist who began painting at a very early age and has become one of the most acclaimed watercolour painters of her subjects in Britain.
Her stunning countryside studio, made famous by a T.V. documentary, allows her to paint her subjects
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Michael Forbes
Michael Forbes was born in 1968 and brought up in the Scottish Highlands where he still lives today. He describes Scotland as the part of the world that fires his desire to paint. It is also where surrealism was born. His work is sometimes surreal and often absurd but usually with a twist of humour to it. Michael Forbes began life as a professional artist after leaving school,
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Neil Marsh
Neil Marsh started out in the world of Marketing where he graduated from North London Polytechnic with an honours degree in Business studies. It was only later on in life that he discovered he had an eye for art.
During a long period of illness and inactivity Neil Marsh began to sketch, and this led to the realisation that he had a particular talent in drawing. He applied
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Nicky Belton
Nicky's background is in fashion and textile design. Having graduated from Winchester School of Art in 1991, she moved into a highly specialised career as a milliner. Here her exceptional skills helped her to build a loyal and substantial client base amongst both private buyers and major agencies.
Her passion for pattern, texture, form and colour are apparent in all aspects
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Paul Jenkins
Paul Jenkins trained at Dudley College of Art during the sixties and has lived in the Black Country most of his life but now lives in Cornwall where he has opened up a gallery. He still fires Raku pottery of his own work at his studios.
Originally Paul Jenkins sculpted in wood but turned his attentions not only to sculpting but also to production. He became skilled in mould
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Paul Tavernor
Paul Tavernor was nominated for up and coming best new artist for 2008 by the Fine Art Trade Guild - achieving runner up in his first year in print.
Paul Tavernor's distinctive style of painting features animals in movement, or head shots in a variety of charismatic poses. Paul Tavernor aims to convey in his work a real living and breathing world within which animals are
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Peter Hildick
Peter has always been interested in the natural world and drawing, although in the early 1960's a career in art was not considered a proper job. He joined the Fleet Air Arm at 19 years of age and spent the next 22 years drawing mainly for pleasure, selling the occasional picture for a few pints.
On leaving the Royal Navy, he started work in the defence industry where he
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Pip McGarry
Born in Singapore in 1955, Pip McGarry describes himself as a self taught artist but attributes his natural talent to his artistic family background. Pip McGarry started out in the Civil Service, but after a lengthy career he finally decided to turn his great hobby of wildlife painting into a profession.
Working mainly in oils, Pip McGarry's originals have been
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Rebecca Lardner
Rebecca Lardner was born in Swanage, Dorset in 1971. After completing an Art Foundation Course she graduated from the University of Liverpool with a BA Honours degree in Illustration. She went on to build a highly successful career as an artist and illustrator, having started out creating greetings cards, Rebbeca Lardner now produces mostly original art works, fulfiling
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Rob Hefferan
Rob is a talented artist in the 'traditional' form, with special skill in animal studies. He revels in the opportunity for exuberance, creativity and imagination offered by working in the contemporary field. When developing this range of fine art images, Rob works to recapture the naivety and joy of infancy. By immersing the viewer in a childlike perception of the world, he
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Robert Bateman
Born in Toronto, Robert Bateman has been a keen artist and naturalist from his early days. He has always painted wildlife and nature, beginning with a representational style, moving through impressionism and cubism to abstract expressionism. In Robert Bateman's early thirties he moved back to realism as a more suitable way to express the particularity of the planet. It is this
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Rolf Harris
Born in Perth, Western Australia, Rolf Harris loved to paint from an early age. When asked at Primary School what he wanted to be when he grew up his response was "An artist". After school Rolf became a teacher, whilst continuing to draw & paint at every opportunity.
At the age of twenty-two, Rolf Harris moved to London on what was supposed to be a year's study leave,
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Sanders Nicolson
Sanders Nicolson has always been passionately committed to fine art photography and printmaking. He became very excited at the possibilities presented by IRIS printing system and has been closely involved with it since it's introduction to the UK in the early 90's. For years Saunders Nicolson was dissatisfied by the limitations in texture of the photographic print and by the
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Simon Garden
Simon Garden was born in Middlesex in 1960. He studied art at Exeter College of Art and Design, graduating in 1982 with a first class honours degree. Since then he has moved from strength to strength, gaining both a national and international reputation as a unique artist of considerable talent.
His work is at once mysterious, magical and timeless. His strong imaginative
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Sonia Rollo
Sonia Rollo was born and brought up near Manchester. She attended the University of Glasgow, graduating in 1968 with a degree in Botany. For several years, Sonia Rollo worked as editor of a scientific journal and in 1985 began to study printmaking at Morley College. As a result of her new interest Halfmoon Printmakers was formed with fellow artists Pip Carpenter and Susie
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Steve Peters
Steve Peters was born in 1957. He turned down the opportunity to go to art college and in his wisdom started a carpentry apprenticeship. Steve Peters worked for several years as a carpenter before forming his own sub contracting business. Although his business is very time consuming Steve Peters tries to make time to draw and paint as often as possible.
Having been forced
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Susie Perring
Susie went to the London College of Printing in 1963-1967, and then worked as a graphic designer in the 60s and 70s. In 1984, Susie started full time as an artist, specialising as a printmaker in etchings, line and aquatint. Susie also taught print at the LCP and for the Outreach programme of Dulwich Picture Gallery's Education Department.
Susie has also been commissioned
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Thuline
Born 1970 in Bruges, Belgium.
In 1993, after finishing her studies in Interior Design in Gent, Belgium, Thuline took a three year break to travel - visiting such countries as the U.S.A., Ghana, and several in Europe.
Thuline moved to England in 1996 and combines her passion for painting with raising a young family.
“I observe animals; their shapes, gestures and
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Veronica Ballan
Veronica Ballan graduated from Sunderland art college with an upper second in Art, and after taking a post graduate course obtaining a PGCE, taught art in Oldham for 7 years. She then found that her designs were in demand by the staff and so decided to go into self employment as a full time ceramicist. Success put her into the full on demands of production, and she had to
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Vivien Walters
Animals and art have always played a large part in Vivien Walters’ life, and following a move to the West Country in 1983 she decided to pursue a full time career as an artist. A contract with a top agent saw her work published nationally and internationally on a large variety of giftware products, including greeting cards.
“Animals have always been an important
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