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Adrian Lack
Adrian Lack was born in Eastbourne in 1946, his early childhood was spent in Yorkshire, where his father taught art at Beverley Grammer School, then he moved to Buckinghamshire when his father was appointed head of the Art Department at Aylesbury Grammer School - where Adrian Lack studied art under his guidance.
Adrian Lack trained as a scientific photographer working for
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Amanda Hoskin
Amanda Hoskin lives and works in Cornwall where the varied landscape and coastline provide a constant source of inspiration. The frequent changes in the weather and their effect on the landscape are a subject that interests Amanda deeply. After finishing art school she became a freelance wildlife illustrator. However working and living in London she began to miss Cornwall and
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Andre Deymonaz
Born in Casablanca in 1946, Andre Deymonaz spent much of his childhood travelling, his family eventually returning to France to settle in Provence.
His family were all artistic, enjoying painting and drawing, but for Andre painting was to become his passion. He grew up dreaming that one day he would be able to fulfil his greatest ambition, which was to become a professional
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Andrew Craig
Andrew Craig says "Most of the paintings I paint just happen with no pre planning. I do however like to catalogue my ideas so I can go back, should I wish, to use them as a source of reference. I find listening to music while I paint extremely inspiring. I then try to transfer what I'm feeling direct onto canvas. It's almost as if the music takes over and my mind goes into
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Ben Payne
Ben Payne has built a reputation for creating artwork which is fresh, escapist and above all, uplifting. Born in Surrey in 1975, he began drawing portraits and painting as a hobby; by the age of 16 he was selling his work, and he has now developed into a major British talent. Although he is almost completely self-taught Ben Payne is able to respond to challenges and create
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Brendan Neiland
Brendan Neiland was keeper of The Royal Academy Schools for two years and enjoys continued success as a painter and printmaker. His subject is the cityscape an environment Brendan feels is rich in potentiality and yet often neglected. Brendan sites the work of fernand Leger who was the first artist to use the awkward contemporary environment as a key to inspiration. Brendan’s
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Bruno Tinucci
Bruno Tinucci was born in 1947 in Livorno. Tinucci is a self taught painter, with his style showing a parallel to other painters from the Livorno region.
Tinucci is an advocate of rich colour and depicts his landscapes in a highly emotional style. Although the landscape is realistic, Tinucci always manages to inject it with an excitement and a message of vitality.
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Carol Jessen
Carol Jessen has worked as an artist in San Francisco for 15 years. Her principal mediums are oil painting, pastel and Japanese woodblock printing.
The process of developing her oil paintings begins with many small charcoal sketches which are further developed by painting small loose oil paintings or drawing full color pastels. She then sketches the full size image to the
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Catherine Binne
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Cecil Rice
Cecil Rice graduated from Brighton Art College in 1983 & is best known for his romantic & colourful paintings of Italy, Venice in particular. His father Sean, a much respected sculptor, encouraged Cecil's interest in painting & it was the family holidays to Tuscany which developed his interest in painting this part of the world.
Meticulous attention to drawing is evident in
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Chris Calver
Chris Calver is based in North Suffolk not far from the picturesque and inspiring location of Southwold. Chris has spent the last year developing his passion for landscape and seascape, photography particularly along the Suffolk coast, and has had some of his photographs published in popular photography magazines. Chris's interest in photography started upon the birth of his
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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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Craig Easton
Craig Easton loves his work as a photographer - for him a great picture captures a moment and conveys a message. His starting point for any image is simply curiosity about people and the lives they lead.
His style is defined by work for international newspapers, magazines and books. In design and advertising his skill is to bring the immediacy and reality of his reportage
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Crispin Thornton-Jones
Crispin Thornton Jones studied at the London School of Printing and the Byam Shaw. Thornton Jones lives and paints in the Black Mountains, South Herefordshire; he is an accomplished portrait and landscape painter.
Thornton Jones regularly contributes to the royal Society of Portrait Painters and the Royal Academy annual exhibitions, and is always in demand for commissions.
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Dave Peck
Landscape photographer Dave Peck has been capturing images for nearly thirty years. Dave was originally a frustrated artist who did not have the patience to practice painting and was soon attracted to the immediacy of photography. Inspired by the images of Bill Brandt, Henri Cartier-Bresson and the landscape work of Charlie Waite the list of influences grows.
Dave has worked
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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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David Gainford
David Gainford was born in South Africa and came to England with his parents at the age of four. When David was nine, he won two silver medals in a national competition for drawings of a magpie and the leaves of a plane tree. At 14, he won a scholarship to art school where he was tutored in drawing by John Pisani. David Gainford was fortunate to have the opportunity of working
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David Rosie
David Rosie was born in the small Caithness fishing town of Wick in the far north of Scotland. He was educated in Thurso and Aberdeen and went on to teach and then spent a number of years living in the Hebrides as a lobster and prawn fisherman.
In the 1990's David Rosie studied drawing and painting at The Glasgow School of Art and has now returned to Thurso where he runs a
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Deborah Phillips
Deborah Phillips was born in Dundee and first exhibited work at the Royal Scottish Academy and the Royal Glasgow Institute of Fine Art at the age of 14.
She attended Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art, Dundee and graduated with BA (honours) in 1987. Following graduation Deborah Phillips took up the post of Merchandise Designer with the National Trust for Scotland. A similar
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Debra Stroud
Debra was born in Guildford, Surrey and has travelled far and wide. She has always had a creative mind and as a child she used to send her inventions to various toy manufacturers. One of her designs was for an all enclosed sledge.
She draws most of her inspiration from the coasts around the South West, she has been very much inspired by places further afield such as the
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Derrick Fielding
Derrick Fielding was born in Liverpool in 1965. Having loved to paint since early childhood, when he left school Fielding began an apprenticeship as a signwriter at Aintree Racecourse, which Derrick feels has influenced his graphical style.
Derrick Fielding continued to paint architecture in his spare time during his apprenticeship. In 1999 he left sign writing and began
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Dion Salvador Lloyd
A self taught artist, Dion Salvador Lloyd comes from an artistic family & was surrounded by art from an early age, hence his middle name. Inspired by his father's work as a sculptor, Dion hoped his hobby would one day expand and enable him to exhibit his own work alongside that of his father's at a regular pitch in Green Park, London. Working in restaurants during the week,
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Donald Hamilton Fraser
Donald Hamilton Fraser has exhibited his highly acclaimed work in Paris, New York, Tokyo, Zurich and many other cities around the world. The list of galleries that own, or have exhibited his work is phenomenal. Donald has participated in many of the most significant exhibitions of British work, including the Royal Academy's 25 Years of British Painting, where he is also a
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Dorothy Bruce
Dorothy Bruce was born in Wisconsin. Bruce gained a BA in Fine Art from the Minneapolis School of Art. Although Bruce has travelled in America and Australia extensively, it was Scotland she chose to make her home, and Bruce has lived there for over 25 years.
Dorothy Bruce has embraced her adopted country with an exuberant passion. Her landscapes often show the wild side of
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Emma van Lindholm
Emma van Lindholm is a professional Fine Art and Commercial photographer based in Bournemouth, Dorset. She is a graduate of the acclaimed Arts Institute, Bournemouth, with a BA (Hons) Degree in photography and a background in fine art, which is ubiquitous in her work. Emma's commercial photography mixes stylish contemporary with reportage and fashion, in addition she focuses
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Frances Ackland-Snow
From an early age Frances has always used drawing and painting as an emotional outlet. She realised then that the paintings she created could evoke deep feelings in other people, the "Essence" of her work.
Growing up in Marlow upon Thames she was fortunate enough to be immersed in the picturesque surroundings and as a young girl she was never without a subject to paint.
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Francis Aliefeh
Francis Aliefeh is a self-taught fine art photographer. He feels that the medium of photography momentarily suspends time; presenting him with opportunities to capture images that will never occur the same way twice. He derives a great sense of pleasure and fulfilment from his work and feels proud to present his collections of images.
Francis Aliefeh has a great affinity
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Ged Mitchell
Ged Mitchell found school life dull, with the exception of art, which he excelled in. He left school at 15 years with no formal qualifications, never having sat an exam. Ged Mitchell took a job as a photographer's assistant and though the position was a brief one, the seed was sewn and photography has been of great interest to him ever since. It taught Ged much about
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Gilbert Browne
Gilbert Browne was born in 1954 in Ayrshire in Scotland and now lives in London. He studied graphic design at Leeds Polytechnic specialising in printmaking and in 1976 was accepted at the Chelsea School of Art for a degree course in Autographics Fine Art Printing. In 1973 he was awarded a medal in the National Drawing Competition in Glasgow and was a prizewinner in the
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Glyn Macey
Glyn Macey was born in Newlyn, Cornwall in 1969. He completed his HND in Graphic Design at Falmouth School of Art in 1991. Since Glyn Macey left college he has worked and lived in Penzance Cornwall, his work developing in response to the unique environment of West Cornwall. Glyn can often be found roaming in the harbours moorland and coast of his native Cornwall sketchbook in
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Goff Danter
Goff Danter was born in 1949 in a small South Wales town called Brynmawr where his artistic interests were first noticed and encouraged by his very supportive art teacher at the local grammar school. On leaving school, Goff trained at the West of England College of Art, Bristol, Cardiff College of Art and Cardiff University. He then taught at St Illtyd's College, Cardiff until
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Graham McKean
Graham Mckean was born in Irvine, Scotland in 1962. After leaving school Graham began to do some work as an illustrator and silk-screen printer. He soon became a full time graphic artist, until 1996 when he decided to become a professional artist. Sure enough he was immediately in tremendous demand and he is now recognized as one of Scotland's finest artists.
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Graham Milton
The epic skyscapes of Graham Milton are beautiful panoramic visions which reflect not only the enormity and variety of the sky, but also capture its ever-changing drama. Influenced by artists from Turner to Rothko, Graham paints the sky because "it has such a profound effect on us as human beings. We have such a strong connection with the sun and the sky that it can influence
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Hazel Soan
Hazel Soan was born in the UK, studied painting at Camberwell and LeicesterArt Colleges, graduating with a BA Hons in Fine Art, and awarded the Holbrook Trust Prize from Nottingham Museum and Art Gallery in 1976.
Hazel Soan's career includes over 20 one man shows in London and the UK and abroad in Venezuela and Southern Africa. She has participated in numerous mixed
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Ian Elliot
Born in Glasgow, Ian Elliot won gold and bronze medals for art on four successive occasions before attending Glasgow School of Art.
Thereafter, having attended Jordanhill Education College, entered the teaching profession to become, for some 16 years, the Head of Art & Design in King's Park Secondary School, a large Glasgow comprehensive secondary school.
He left teaching in
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Inam
Inam was born and raised in South Asia. Critics have dubbed this up-and-coming artist's style as "Magical Expressionism". He learned the fundamentals of sketching and painting by his elementary school art teacher. Since then he has attended art schools in London, Istanbul and Atlanta. Inam has been painting on and off since he was very young. However, he debuted as a
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James Martin
James Martin was born in Lossiemouth, Scotland. A natural and compulsive artist, he drew and painted from his earliest years, which marked the beginning of a life-long passion for art.
After qualifying and practising as a doctor for seven years the desire to make art would not go away and in 1993 he made a complete career change turning full time to painting. Since then
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Jean Claude Tron
Born in 1943 in Champagne sur Oise, France, Jean Claude Tron began to paint at the age of thirteen. At sixteen he started work, but his desire to paint was so strong that he continued his art studies through evening classes.
Despite fulfilling numerous commissions and holding exhibitions of his work at several prestigious galleries, Jean Claude did not begin to dedicate all
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John Holt
John was born near Manchester in 1949. After leaving school he attended Stockport College of Art to study advertising and graphic design. Having completed the final year of his degree at Salford College of Art, John was awarded the prestigious Bursary Award from the highly acclaimed Royal Society of Arts.
He has become increasingly inspired by Spanish and French
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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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John Lines
John Lines was born in 1938 in Rugby Warwickshire. He studied art in Warwickshire at Rugby Polytechnic from 1959 and then at York School of Art. John Lines has been exhibiting his contemporary paintings since leaving art school. But initially his time was shared between art activities and working in Industry. John's paintings are distinctive and beautifully painted. His style
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John Lowrie Morrison
John Lowrie Morrison was born in Glasgow in 1948, and from an early age he showed a talent for art. After completing a degree in Drawing and Painting at Glasgow School of Art he set out to pursue a career in art and design; he funded his painting by teaching, firstly as Head of Art and Design at Lochgilphead High School and then as Art Adviser for the Strathclyde Region.
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John Walker
John started working in stained glass at Richmond College and at Goddard and Gibbs Ltd in London and later studied oil painting under the renowned (United Artists) painter, Joan Workman.
John's semi abstract landscapes and coastal scenes offer an exciting artist's view on the world and bridge that interesting gap between realism and the more contemporary style. His mixed
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John Waterhouse
John Waterhouse has always been interested in art, gaining inspiration and encouragement from his parents. In 1983, at the age of sixteen, John Waterhouse left school gaining a grade A in O'level art and winning the overall school prize for best art pupil. John Waterhouse began teaching young offenders art in 2000, which he found incredibly rewarding, before beginning to
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Jon Wyatt
Commercial and Fine Art photographer, Jon Wyatt, has received several awards for his contemporary landscape work which has been shown in many joint exhibitions in the UK and abroad. His images are presented such that the colour and quality of the light found in the landscape becomes the core component - the heart - of each image. Viewpoints are often chosen with no significant
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Jonathan Shaw
Jonathan Shaw was born in Leeds in 1959 and grew up watching his father, a professional painter, working. Jonathan Shaw always felt he was destined to follow in his father's footsteps, but after leaving school found himself working in a variety of jobs, and finally finding a creative position as an interior designer. Jonathan Shaw knew that this was not the life for him and
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Joy Brand
Born in Surrey Joy Brand has lived most of her life in Buckinghamshire where the Chiltern hills and woodlands fostered her interest in landscape. North Wales, Scotland, Hampshire and Somerset have also provided her with many subjects. Joy Brand has made a particular study of the forms of moving water in stream, river and the sea. Joy Brand studied at the Slade School and later
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Kathleen Caddick
Kathleen Caddick was born in 1937 in Liverpool but grew up in Buckinghamshire. Having studied at High Wycombe School of Art, she worked as a graphic designer and lecturer. She started to paint full-time in 1968. Kathleen published her first etching in the late 1970's. Her natural style of concise line and delicate hand colouring greatly lend them to etching, her chosen medium,
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Kathryn Thomas
Through painting, Kathryn attempts to create an image that seems different each time you look at it, depending on either your changing mood or your perspective. Through this changing image she wants you to be able to conjure an atmosphere or a feeling from your own experience, so that the image always involves the viewer.
On a more universal level, Kathryn urges the viewer to
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Kelly Jane
Kelly's worked as an Interior Designer/ Architectural Technician designing the decor and furnishing for pubs and clubs for Ansells and Rank Leisure. She later worked at Belgravia Picture Framing where she gained confidence in her ability to paint at a similar standard to what she was framing. After some encouragement from friends and family she approached a local gallery who
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Lawrence Coulson
Lawrence Coulson was born into an artistic family. As the son of Gerald Coulson, one of the country's foremost landscape and aviation artists, Lawrence consequently grew up surrounded by art. Lawrence Coulson was always encouraged to draw, his main subject being cars.
At 21 Lawrence Coulson's father encouraged him to try oil painting and he sold his first pictures for £30
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Lee Frost
Lee Frost was born 1966 near Barnsley, South Yorkshire and became interested in photography at the age of 15 when he was presented with a Zenith SLR. A keen hiker and backpacker at the time, he was immediately attracted to landscape photography and although this remains a passion for which he is perhaps best-known, he loves the art of creating imaginative images and is happy
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Louisa Boyd
Louisa studied embroidery at the Manchester Metropolitan University and graduated in 2001. She exhibited her work at the New Designers Show that year and won two prestigious awards - The Paperchaser Future of Design Award and a high commendation from the judges of the New Designer of the Year. This led to her work being shown in two solo exhibitions, the first at Paperchase's
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Lynn Poland
As a child Lynn would spend whole days painting alone in her room. She left school at the earliest opportunity to enrol in a foundation course with art based A level subjects.
Between 1982 and 1985 she trained as a printmaker in Manchester and had two pieces exhibited in the Whitworth Young Contemporaries Exhibition, resulting in a number of contacts & commissions for
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Lynne Sonnenberg
Lynne Sonnenberg's posy images delicately mix bright coloured petals with pale washes of background colour. Expressionistic in style – blue stems and furry petals – she describes her process of creating art as a dance. Lynne has studied art throughout her life, but became a professional artist mid-career. A member of the Artist's Guild of San Francisco, she exhibits her art in
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Marc Bedingfield
Marc Bedingfield was born in Ipswich in 1974.
Marc has enjoyed spending time in the countryside for as long as he can remember and began to study Environmental Conservation in 1990. It was here that Marc Bedingfield fully learned to appreciate the delicate balance of nature and the challenges it faces, from the intricate eco systems of the heathlands to the issues of
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Marc Wilson
Marc Wilson works both as an artist and commercial photographer, he also teaches photography at degree level. Working in the genre of documentary landscape photography, Marc Wilson looks at both rural and urban environments often focusing on a particular subject or theme.
With a degree in Sociology and both a degree and masters in Photography Marc Wilson has exhibited in solo
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Mark Bauer
Mark is a professional landscape photographer based in Dorset in the UK. He first became interested in photography while living and working abroad, but since returning to the UK in the early 1990's, his local surroundings of Dorset and the New Forest have been the main focus of his attention, providing inspiration for his passion for landscape photography.
He completed a City
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Mauricio Abreu
Maurício Abreu was born in Coimbra in 1954, and has lived in Setúbal since 1964.
He took a degree in electrotechnical engineering at Lisbon's Higher Institute of Engineering (IST) in 1978. Since 1983 he has devoted his time solely to photography and has been involved in various works as photographer, producer and publisher in the fields of natural and cultural heritage,
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Michael Barnfather
One of England's leading landscape painters, Michael was born at Ilkeston, Derbyshire. Michael studied at the Derby College of Art, 2 years later becoming a technical artist at Rolls Royce. While working for Rolls Royce he was pursuing his love of painting and began to plan for a career which was gradually determined by the acclaim given to his work at various amateur
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Michael Bennallack Hart
Michael Bennallack-Hart was born in 1948 in Sussex, and studied at Ravensbourne College of Art in London from 1966-70. He began his career designing and illustrating film posters and record sleeves, and painting landscapes and sports scenes. In the 70s and 80s Michael Bennallack-Hart worked as an advertising art director and as an illustrator, while continuing to paint and
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Michael Kidd
Michael Kidd was born in 1937. He studied at Wimbledon School of Art where he gained a scholarship to the Royal College of Art. On leaving the Royal College Michael Kidd worked as an art director in some of London's leading advertising agencies.
In 1966 Michael Kidd moved to New York to work as a creative director for a London Agencies' New York office. Following his
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Nagib Karsan
Born in Tanzania in 1955, Nagib Karsan spent his childhood years in Africa and boarding school in the UK.
Enjoying art from an early age he undertook a six-month course in Kenya before embarking on a varied career in business.
The the late 1990’s he found time to rediscover his interest in art and explored a wide variety of mixed media and techniques.
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Nick Andrews
As a child Nick loved getting out and exploring the surrounding countryside where he grew up, in Oxfordshire. At home his parents would say that he 'lived in a world of his own''. But what he was really doing was playing visual games, making pictures in his mind of the world around.
Nick went on to study art and design at Oxford Brookes, followed by graphic design at London
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Nick Potter
Having always longed to be an artist, Nick Potter experimented with many different ventures in his life before finally realising his dream. Nick studied Archaeology at university before becoming a teacher, which he left after a while to begin working in educational publishing.
Nick Potter sketched and painted prolifically in his spare time, and although he gained pieces of
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Norman Smith
Norman Smith was born in 1949. He studied Art and design at Bristol before qualifying as a teacher and travelling extensively in India and the Far East. Following three years working in Western Australia he returned to England in 1987 to paint professionally.
Norman Smith is best known as a pastel artist and is a member of the Pastel Society and regularly exhibits at The
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Norman Stevens
Born in 1937 Norman Stevens studied painting at Bradford College of Art. His work is in public collections such as the Arts Council the Victoria and Albert Museum Bradford City Art Gallery the Tate Gallery and the Museum of Modern Art New York. Norman Stevens exhibited extensively in Europe and North America as well as the UK. Norman died in
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Paul Alexander
Paul Alexander has been working with a camera for just under two years and is staff photographer for PostArt Ltd, an small independent image solutions company based in Portsmouth.
He started practising photography in preparation for travelling around New Zealand in 2004. When he got there he discovered his love for photography as an art form and decided to pursue it
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Paul Corfield
Paul was born in Bournemouth, Dorset on the 25th March 1970 and has lived within 10 miles of his birthplace all his life. Detail was always his thing; if his drawing didn't look like the object or scene he was looking at then he would find it a most infuriating experience. In his recent work he has finally escaped those shackles and it's been a very enjoyable and liberating
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Pei Yang
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Phil Greenwood
Phil Greenwood was born in 1943 in Dolgellau, North Wales. He studied at Hornsey and Harrow Colleges of Art and was taught by some of Britain's finest artists- Ken Howard RA, Charles Bartlett RE, RWS and the late Christopher Saunders RA. He has been a professional printmaker since 1971 and was elected a fellow of the Royal Society of Printer-etchers in 1982. Phil has exhibited
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Philip Gray
Philip was born in Cork, Ireland, in 1959. From the age of 5 he loved art, and one of his earliest memories is being tutored in figurative drawing by a family friend, Trevor Scott, the founder of the renowned College of Art and Design in Dublin.
At the age of 16, Philip left school and joined the Irish Navy. Once he had established himself as a naval diver, he began to paint
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Philip Raskin
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Reuben Colley
Reuben was encouraged to paint & draw by his art teacher at school, after which he studied Art & Design at Bournville Art College, Birmingham before enrolling at The University of Wolverhampton where he gained a BA Honours in Fine Art.
He organised a number of small exhibitions around Birmingham & Manchester which soon sold out. Needing a regular income he worked as a
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Richard Pargeter
Born in the Midlands in 1976, Richard's artistic leanings were obvious from an early age. As a child he dreamed of being a painter, and he regards himself as one of life's lucky ones.
After graduating, Richard became a professional illustrator of childrens' books and undertook numerous other design projects. He was soon invited to display a selection of his work at the New
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Richard Rowan
Richard comes from a design and fine art background in Northampton, and won the Daily Mail's ‘Artist of the Year' award in 1992. After he finished his training, he found himself in the motorsport business. He used this time to find inspiration, and in travelling the world, he certainly found this in excess. For the last 3 years, he has devoted all of his time to art on glass,
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Richard Tuff
Richard Tuff is both an accomplished painter and printmaker. Since being published by CCA Galleries his work has been prominently featured in magazines and newspapers including the Independent. Having completed his studies at Winchester School of Art Richard moved to Cornwall at the end of 1988 and began to concentrate on his paintings. He printed his first silkscreen with
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Robert Hurdle
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Robert Cook
Robert Cook was born in 1948 and is a self-taught artist. He has painted professionally since 1989. He uses acrylic and layered glazing on textured canvas to complete an old-world finish that most mistake for oils. His landscapes in particular have a calming effect on most people. He has perfected a unique technique of hand painting and embellishing his canvas prints. Each
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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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Shane McCoubrey
Shane McCoubrey graduated from the Royal College of Art in 1993, with a desire to work internationally in art, fashion and design. Shane has gone on to work for some of the worlds most successful luxury brands such as Gucci, Ferrari and Louis Vuitton.
Whilst travelling Shane McCoubrey found himself captivated by the study of the horizon line at sunset and dawn. He
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Simon Crowther
"I have been fascinated by photography ever since a family holiday on the greek island of Santorini at the age of about ten. I was blown away by the deep, rich azure of the sea and blue and white churches against blue skies and tried to copy the colour postcards that were everywhere. Since then, I have explored as many different photographic techniques as time has allowed. Now
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Simon Palmer
There is a quality in the hidden narratives and quirky perspectives of Simon Palmer that is quintessentially English. The tonal qualities of William Morris are recalled in Simon's muted earthy hues and a calm tendency towards surrealism reminiscent of Stanley Spencer is evident in the unfathomable situations he represents. It was at Reigate School of Art where Simon studied
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Stavros Kotsireas
Kotsireas was born in Athens and now lives and works in the UK. He studied at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in the Netherlands majoring in Painting Drawing and Graphic Arts. His painting exhibitions are very successful commanding an international audience. The shapes of the cypress trees reaching boldly to the sky particularly dominate Stavros's images. One is extremely
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Stephen Whittle
Stephen Whittle was born in Leeds, England in 1953. He began etching at Chelsea School of Art, London in 1970 and continued at Brighton College of Art, from which he received an honors degree in fine art in 1975. The next few years were spent in Switzerland and England, working as artist, teacher and graphic designer. In 1980 Stephen Whittle established his etching studio near
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Steven Brown
Stephen was born at Chard in Somerset in 1947 and trained at the Somerset College of Art in the late sixties. He was fortunate enough to spend the 1970s working alongside highly acclaimed artist Patrick Larking R.P.R.O.I. In this way Stephen came to admire and respect such artists as Sickert, George Clausen and Augustus John, all of whom had taught and befriended Pat while he
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Tim Schaible
"In 1993 I came back to painting after a family tragedy awoke me to one of life's hardest lessons - time is precious and, if you have something unique to share, do it.
While my formal training gave me a strong background in theory and technique, I wanted to bring a uniqueness to my painting -- something that would truly reflect who I am. So, instead of adapting my
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Timmy Mallett
Timmy Mallett is known as a TV and entertainment personality, but is just as versatile and colourful in his artistic endeavours.
Timmy Mallett loves painting (mainly in acrylics), and will reach for his 'Mallett's Pallette' at the drop of a brush. He is a really talented artist who takes his inspiration from this country, and from trips all over the world. Timmy Mallett's
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Tjasa Owen
Tjasa Owen's work is a confluence of her international travels, her enthusiasm for written correspondence, and her love for landscapes, inland as well as coastal. Having grown up by the Atlantic seashore, she is drawn to its ever-changing skies and dunes. During her foreign travels and time away from the studio, she photographs, sketches, and captures landscape details and
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Tom Swimm
Tom Swimm is a self taught artist who has been painting since childhood. Born in 1950, Swimm is entirely self taught, although he has conducted extensive studies of artists including Gaugin and Hopper.
Tom Swimm's work conveys a remarkable realism that gives one a sense of "being there". Upon first viewing, people frequently comment that Swimm's paintings look almost
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