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Graduated in London in 1959, Martin is a professional painter who is primarily concerned with the landscape. Works range from watercolours and gouaches to large oils.
He has lived and worked beside the Thames for forty years and from a houseboat a ...
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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, Bella, My Weekly, Sunday Express and Woman’s Own.
Her illustration work has ...
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Born between the two world wars, Beryl Cook eventually left Kendrick School in Reading at the age of 15, where she went to secretarial school and then into an insurance office. After moving to London and then Hampton, she eventually married her next ...
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Born in the town of Ushak, Turkey and now based in Vancouver, Canada. Coplu’s impressive journey as an artist started as a young child. His mother, a weaver, taught him about figures, the meanings of patterns and the emotional effectiveness of color. ...
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Lawrence Coulson grew up surrounded by his famous father´s evocative paintings. The artist had a great love and enthusiasm for cars and would often draw his favourite models repetitively on pieces of paper gleaned from his supportive father. Unbeli ...
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Nicola Dugmore has been working as a watercolour artist for 15 years. Nature is a constant influence on Nicola's work, with much inspiration coming from her garden and animals. Living in an old Victorian cottage situated in countryside but at the sam ...
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When people ask me, "When did you start painting?" or, "What got you interested in art?" I have to reply, that I simply don´t know! It´s something that I have always done and always felt passionate about. When I look back at my childhood, ...
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Toni Goffe studied painting and illustration at Southampton College of Art in Hampshire between 1952-1956, gaining a National Diploma in Design. On completing the course, he moved to London where he freelanced as an illustrator within an advertising ...
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It wasn´t until the autumn of 1997 that I turned professional, dedicating for the first time ever, all of my energy into my art. I held a major one-man retrospective exhibition in the summer of 1998 entitled ´All in a Life´s Work´, which was a person ...
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Born in Glasgow in 1956 Steve grew up in Dumfries and studied at art school. Upon leaving, he became an apprentice electrician for a brief period, as he was uncertain of where his artistic path led. In 1973, Carlisle College offered him a placement, ...
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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 form and flux, tangible entitles engulfed in a constantly changing environment. We ...
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Madjid, born in 1943 in Teheran, comes from a well known Persian family of artists. 25 Years ago he came to Germany. He lives partly in Hamm (Germany), partly on Mallorca. His works are represented in important art collections in Europe, USA and Asia ...
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Growing up in Toronto, I was always drawing. As a little kid, animals were my favourite subject. My parents were very encouraging, and when I was about ten years old they arranged for me to spend time with a wonderful artist named Ralph Abrams. He wa ...
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I was born in 1960 into the small mining community of Springside a few miles outside the town of Kilmarnock on the west coast of Scotland. Life within the small Scottish village was very traditional and although I grew up in the 60´s era it felt more ...
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Amazingly I find myself thinking about how I initially got interested in painting and how I became an artist. I say amazingly because it was never really meant to be - at least never in my wildest dreams! However, after taking the plunge in 1988 I ha ...
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Govinder Nazran´s artistic training began at Bradford Art College, where he studied Graphic Design from 1980-1983. He went on to study at Lincoln Art College, completing a Diploma in Graphic Design, specialising in Illustration, in 1985.
Having ...
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As a child I spent whole days painting and drawing on in solitude in my room. I left school as soon as I could and enrolled on a two year foundation course with A level subjects – all art based. It was an idyllic time for me. The art disciplines were ...
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Dion Salvador Lloyd is a self-taught artist and, coming from an artistic family, was surrounded by art from an early age, hence his middle name. As well as his creative passion for music, he found self-expression through painting. On failing ´O´ leve ...
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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, he went to Kenya and was promptly told by the National Parks people that he ...
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I have been painting for as long as I can remember. I lived on the outskirts of London which meant I benefited from being within easy reach of London Galleries and open countryside, both of which were a source of immense inspiration to me. As an only ...
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Born in the small town of Mansfield, Nottinghamshire I bypassed the well trodden route to the local industries and follow the somewhat unusual lifestyle of artist. Along the way I became a surveyor, a computer programmer and eventually a graphic arti ...
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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 commissioned to produce limited edition etchings of Kew Gardens and has since under ...
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My first creative attempt, at the age of two and a half, was to peel off the nursery freeze that my Mother had applied to the wall minutes earlier.I have always had a creative mind and as a child I used to send my inventions to various toy manufactur ...
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Sarah Jane Szikora was born in county Durham, England, in 1971. Sarah was encouraged from a young age to pursue her interest in drawing which led to a course in art and design at Harrogate College. Illustration at Cleveland College of Art followed fr ...
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Internationally renowned artist Mackenzie Thorpe was raised in an industrial town in northern England during a period of economic hardship. Struggling with dyslexia early in his life, Mackenzie found salvation in painting and drawing.
His works e ...
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"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 ideas for paintings constantly enter my head and I note many of them down on pa ...
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Nel Whatmore is 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 afternoons, the rest of their time is divided looking after their children.
Nel Whatmore's st ...
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From Hollywood, Todd White is quickly establishing himself as one of the greats on the international art scene. He is collected by a host of A-list Hollywood celebrities and his original works, in high demand, are being snapped-up by the richest and ...
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"My first recollection of having an interest in art was at the age of 10 when I entered into a school Easter Card Competition and won first prize. This inspired me to carry on drawing, particularly incorporating my main interest at that time of aircr ...
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