Adamson, Crawfurd
Alexander, David
David Alexander David Alexander RCA (born 1947) is a Canadian painter, known for breathing new life into the landscape tradition of Canada as well as for working in a serious and ambitious manner to reinvigorate the contemporary practice of landscape painting. He...
Bowman, Day
Day Bowman Day Bowman takes her inspiration from Britain’s industrial landscape. She created the touring exhibitions The Urban Wastelands Project (2011/12), Edgelands (2016/17) and Getting Away! (2018). In 2012 Day was commissioned to produce a series of giant...
Bradford, Fiona
Fiona Bradford Fiona Bradford is a graduate of Somerset College of Art from where she received first class honours from Plymouth University, going on to achieve her MA in Fine Arts at The Arts University Bournemouth. Her work has been exhibited widely from London to...
Bradshaw, Bronwen
Bronwen Bradshaw Bronwen Bradshaw took a BA Honours Degree in Modern Languages at the University of London from 1963 to 1966. In 1972 and 1974 she studied at the Salzburg Sommerkunstakademie where she won a prize for her work. From 1970 to 1975 she was a lecturer in...
Burdass, Gina
Gina Burdass Born in 1951, Gina Burdass she divides her time between studios in London and Dorset. For short period in the 1960s she was studio assistant to the Op Art artist Bridget Riley whose demanding and immaculately crafted paintings she worked on. However,...
Crozier, William
William Crozier William Crozier (1930-2011) was born in Glasgow to Irish parents and educated at the Glasgow School of Art between 1949 and 1953. On graduating he spent time in Paris and Dublin before settling in London, where he gained a reputation as the 1950s...
Dunseath, Chris
Chris Dunseath Chris Dunseath is a prize winning sculptor whose work has been seen across the UK and abroad. A graduate of the Slade in London, Dunseith's work is heavily influenced by ancient Egyptian art, the construction of functional objects and of time, space,...
Dutton, Jenni
Jenni Dutton based in Somerset is a graduate of St Martin's whose current work has evolved from a series of conceptual dress sculptures that began in the late 90's. This extends the concept of body wrappings in a series of sculptures using shop mannequins - either...
Elfick, Pennie
Pennie Elfick trained at Wimbledon School of Art. On first impression, her paintings appear very minimal. However, she draws many of her ideas from the landscape around her, particularly in her use of colour and her exploration of the transient nature of light. They...
Faulds, Gordon
Gordon Faulds was born in Paisley in 1957. He received his BA in Fine Art from Preston Polytechnic, Lancaster before gaining his MA at Bath Academy of Art, Corsham. 'Deluge ' was the first step in a new development for this fine artist who is best known for drawings...
Frood, Robin
Robin Frood Robin Frood graduated from Camberwell College of Art, London in 2002. In recent years she has been living and working in Venice as a printmaker specialising in Mokuhanga, a form of woodcut practised in Japan, using only water-based pigments, which are...
Gardiner, Anna
Anna Gardiner Anna Gardiner graduated from Royal Academy Schools in 1994. Her images illustrate chance encounters, small events and surprises that illustrate life in flow. Children were the subjects of her early paintings, often offset against abstract, strongly...
Graham, Jenny
Jenny Graham was born in England but spent many of her formative years in the US both in New York and Los Angeles, an experience which she believes formed many of the ways in which she sees the visual world. She has been back in England for over 30 years now, mainly...
Grant, Alistair
Alistair Grant Alistair Grant (1925-1997) is best known as a printmaker who experimented in blending print techniques in the 1970s and 80s. Working in the print department of the Royal College of Art, London from the 1960s onwards, he taught printmaking to students,...
Hibbard, Peter
Peter Hibbard was born in 1945 in Sheffield. He studied sculpture at Loughborough and in London. In 1968 he was awarded a post graduate research scholarship at Zagreb in Yugoslavia and in 1972 was awarded a coveted Winston Churchill Travelling Fellowship (for...
Hilliard, John
John Hilliard was a self-taught artist working in West Somerset whose imagery was inspired by the North Devon and Somerset coastline where he walked with his dog. Working in a Turner-esque manner, his oils and pastels capture the atmosphere of reflected light off the...
Hunter, Margaret
Margaret Hunter Margaret Hunter was born in 1948 in Ayrshire, Scotland. She studied at the Glasgow School of Art (1981–85) and under Professor Georg Baselitz at the Hochschule der Künste in Berlin. Her exhibitions history is as extensive in the UK as it is in Germany:...
Karasick, Mark
Mark Karasick Mark Karasick was born in 1959 and raised in Winnipeg, Canada. He left Manitoba in 1979 to attend the Ontario College of Art in Toronto and then Guelph University. It was there that he met Tony Scherman, who introduced him to encaustic painting. His...
Kerr, Janette PPRWA HRSA
Janette Kerr PPRWA Janette Kerr is a sea artist, dividing her time between Somerset and Shetland (where she was born). In her artist’s statement she writes, ‘My paintings represent immediate responses to sound and silences within the landscape around me; they are...
Lauder, Kenneth
Kenneth Lauder Kenneth Lauder (1916-2004) was born in Edinburgh. Between 1933-36 he trained at Chiswick School of Art and Chelsea School of Art where his tutor was Robert Medley. From 1936-39 he attended the Royal College of Art where his contemporaries included John...
McLean, Ian
Ian McLean Ian McLean (1973-2000) was one of the up and coming artists redefining figurative painting in the 1990s. His figures are striking and straight forward, the paintings sparse but not empty. This fine and very direct portrait I acquired from the exhibition...
Milroy, Jack
Jack Milroy Jack Milroy was born in Glasgow in 1938. He trained at the Scarborough School of Art and the University of London, and has been based in London, where he has taught and worked ever since. Over a forty year period he has exhibited throughout the UK and...
Mourad, Joumana
Joumana Mourad (b. 1954, Manchester) is a London based artist who studied at Byam School of Art. In the 1990s she was represented by Boukamel Gallery. Her 1998 show of paintings and monotypes exhibited there comprised a collection of vibrantly coloured images...
Needham, Susie
Susie Needham Susie Needham lives in Somerset. She is one of the UK's leading photogram artists. Her images of fabrics - dresses, christening robes, blouses - old and new, have a haunting quality which gives them a visual edge. These are often sourced from families...
Palmer, Hannah
Hanna Palmer Hannah Palmer was born as Hannah Emma Hollow (Annie) in 1881. She was a Bristol artist. She marred Edwin George Palmer (1887-1940). At some point they emigrated to Ben Lomond, New south wales, Australia, where she died in 1956. Little is known about her...
Paolozzi, Sir Eduardo
Sir Eduardo Paolozzi CBE RA Sir Eduardo Paolozzi (1924-2005) was one of the UK's most significant artists/sculptors of the C20and is widely considered to be one of the pioneers of pop art. Born in Leith, in north Edinburgh, he studied at the Edinburgh College of Art...
Parkin, Ione
Ione Parkin RWA Ione Parkin is interested in landscape in the broadest sense – in the primal dynamics of organic life and geological process. Parkin’s artistic preoccupation with the deep history of earth formation and organic evolution evokes a time before the...
Tomkins, Riduan
Riduan Tomkins Riduan Tomkins was born in Dorset, UK, in 1941. He studied at The Royal College of Art in London. After he moved to New Zealand he became visiting Senior Lecturer and then permanent Senior Lecturer in Painting at the University of Canterbury’s School of...
Winter, George
George Winter George Winter had a successful career as an actor before illness took his life in a different direction. He achieved a place at Bristol University as a mature student and studied for three years gaining a BA Honours Degree in Fine Art. Since leaving...
Zhang, Jay
Jay Zhang Jay Zhang is a London based artist working primarily with etching. When exhibited at the royal Academy Summer Exhibitions he has received great success with his prints. His images are remote wooded landscapes with misty atmosphere, quite other-worldly in...