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Alan Villiers
Alan John Villiers was born in Melbourne, Australia, in 1903. He spent much of his life in Britain, but remained an Australian citizen. Alan became enthralled with the merchant sailing vessels, 'tall ships', which he saw in the docks in Melbourne at an early age. He soon mastered the art of sailing such vessels and worked for various shipping companies in the UK.
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Andrew Macara
Andrew Macara was born in Derbyshire in 1944. Although Andrew studied contemporary modern British Art for a short period with Leonard Fuller at the St Ives School of Painting amongst the Cornwall Art Galleries he considers himself a self taught artist. Today Andrew Macara has one of the most distinctive styles of present day contemporary British Artists and has enjoyed
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Angie Horder
Angie Horder was born in London in 1945 where she was also educated. She studied graphics and printmaking at Kingston School of Art and has worked as a designer, etcher, painter and illustrator ever since.
With a post graduate teaching degree, Angie Horder taught in London while continuing to exhibit and work as an illustrator for Vogue and Brides magazines.Before raising
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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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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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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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Dale Bowen
Dale Bowen was born Staffordshire 1963, where he still lives. Always interested in painting from an early age he went on to study art at Newcastle under Lyme college.
He is a master potter and has worked in the industry for over 20 years, firstly for Coalport China and then for Wedgwood for the last 15 years. Working for Wedgewood in the working in the Prestige Department
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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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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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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 Stirling
Dorothy Stirling's work is firmly rooted in her love of the Scottish landscape which she people's with sheep and birds. She finds the presence of the human figure in her pictures reduces the atmosphere of loneliness and prefers the company of a solitary animal or bird. The Lamb has become a kind of pilgrim progressing through life: at first meek and helpless as in "To The
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Duncan MacGregor
Born in 1961, Duncan Macgregor (or DMAC) grew up in the Midlands where he still spends a substantial part of the year. Despite living so far inland, he managed to develop a passion for the sea, and spent a highly significant 18 months sailing across the Atlantic and then around the coast of Britain.
Taking his inspiration from the surrounding landscape and of course the
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Elaine Cooper
Karen says that spending time in the West Country with its ancient coastal culture has inspired some of her favourite harbour scenes. She feels that he old houses that have looked out to sea for hundreds of years, with their tiny windows and vibrant colours, have a fascination all of their own.
She also finds cats fascinating creatures, aloof and independent yet affectionate
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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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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 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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Kevin Blackham
Born and bought up in a farming community in Shropshire, Kevin Blackham displayed his exceptional artistic talent from an early age. At seven he won a handwriting competition and following this success he gained a hot of design commissions from local companies whilst still at school. Kevin Blackham graduated with distinction from Reigate School of Art and Design in Surrey
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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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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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Matt Bailey
Matt was born in 1975 in the Midlands and trained as a diving instructor when he left school. He taught diving throughout his time at university and has worked in the diving industry ever since.
A few years into his diving career, he picked up a camera in a housing that belonged to a friend and started taking a few snaps. Finding the techniques required frustrating he
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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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Nel Whatmore
Nel studied at Wolverhampton University for a Foundation Course in Art & Design, going on to study for a BA degree at Trinity & All Saints College, Leeds. In 1990 she represented the "Princes Youth Business Trust" at the Chelsea Flower Show in 1990.
Nel has exhibited work at the Albert Docks, Liverpool, the Chelsea Flower Show and the NEC Birmingham as well as a one-woman
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Nikky Corker
Nikky enjoys sketching where ever she goes, be it walking in the dales or visiting the industrial areas of the North, when creating her quirky images she will often simplify the details yet always maintains the quirky humour within a scene.
Nikky paints what makes her smile and hopes that some of that joy is conveyed to those who take the time to look at her
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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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Pam Carter
Born in Tanganyika, East Africa to an Austrian mother and Scottish father, Pam moved to Scotland at the age of thirteen. She graduated from Glasgow School of Art in the seventies and immediately embarked on a career in teaching. She took a year out to study in Chicago, then spent a further two years teaching art in the Seychelles. From the mid-eighties she taught in various
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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 Martin
Paul Martin LBIPP started his photographic journey whilst travelling back in 2004. Combining his love for diving and photography, Paul bought housing for his camera to make sure that whenever he breaks the surface the camera goes with him.
After returning from travels and completing his photography education, Paul Martin set up his photography business, which has its very
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Peter Knox
Peter Knox describes his work as representing a 'visual diary' of his life and experiences growing up in the North of England. His evocative industrial images are realistic but affectionate portrayals of a vanishing world that is linked to his personal ideas of family, friendship and childhood.
Shipyards, docks, engineering works and steelworks provided the visual
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Peter Wileman
Peter Wileman was born in 1946 in Middlesex. On leaving school he went straight into his first job as a studio junior for a card company, where his innate artistic talent was recognised. Here he spent 5 years studying lettering and design - his first artistic training - which gave him a solid grounding in colour awareness and formal structure.
Peter Wileman then moved on to
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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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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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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 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 Spare
Most of Richard’s painting derive from his travels or from aspects of domestic life such as object’s he enjoys having around him. He recently designed a garden in his studio which has proved a rich source of inspiration and a starting point for much of his work. The velvety qualities of his work is achieved by using a drypoint etching technique with the inspiration for the
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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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Sarah Jane Walker
Born in Edinburgh in 1974, Sarah-Jane studied at Manchester Metropolitan University where she achieved a first class BA honours degree in Textiles. Her final student show was a sell-out success and gave her the confidence to apply for a series of high-flying jobs. Her career in the textile industry developed, and culminated in a prestigious position as Design and Marketing
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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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Sherree Valentine Daines
Sherree Valentine Daines has, to date, had an extraordinary career as an artist. Her work is highly sought after and collected across the globe by legions of fans who admire her impressionist styling. Sherree Valentine Daines has a fantastic reputation as an artist of true integrity and charisma, with her appeal lying in the enchanting scenes she observes and paints with such
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Simon Kenevan
Simon Kenevan was born in London in 1963, but while he was still a child he moved to the south coast of England. He has fond memories of these idyllic early days, describing himself as free-spirited, running barefoot in the sand and climbing trees.After leaving school in 1982 Simon joined the crew of a fishing boat, reaffirming his lifelong relationship with the sea. As time
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Stephen Ring
Stephen Ring started his artistic career painting detailed pictures of birds, sold from the iron railings, which adorn Hyde park. From there he established two successful art shops before moving to the beautiful county of Devon where his natural artistic talent was ignited.
With his artistic background and passion for being outdoors he has combined determination and hard
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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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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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Wendy Corbett
Having been discouraged from working with animals as a youngster, Wendy started her working life as a teacher but soon discovered this was not the profession for her.
After a variety of jobs ranging from farming to fork-lift truck driving, she began working with her father as a sign writer & lettering artist for a number of years until computer technology put her out of a
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Wendy McBride
Wendy McBride has always had an interest in art and design but it was not until her youngest child started school that she decided to return to her studies and complete a degree in English, Art and Design at Marjon College, Exeter. Following graduation Wendy enjoyed teaching both painting and creative writing, but has now embarked on a full-time career in art and is constantly
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Will Kemp
Will is one of the most exciting new talents working in the genre of landscape art. His instinctive and spontaneous approach to landscape painting is underpinned by classical 17th Century techniques. His vibrant landscapes have great immediacy and appeal but maintain their strong connection with the contemporary world. This duality is achieved via a surprisingly minimalist
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