Sylvia Antonsen was born in Dorset in 1937. She studied contemporary painting at Bournemouth College of Art obtaining a National Diploma in Design.

Sylvia then worked as a designer at the Royal School of Needlework. ...

David Barnes was born in Africa and spent his early childhood there. He qualified as a chartered accountant and spent most of his working life in professional practice. In his forties David took an Open University degree in history and economics. He then worked for several ...

Born in 1943, David Beer originates from Whitstable in Kent and trained as a teacher at Bishop Otter College, Chichester, where he studied pottery as his main subject. He started painting at evening class whilst at Corsham, Wiltshire, where he was a Head Teacher. He also ...

Stephen Brown was born in Chard Somerset in 1947. As a young artist he studied contemporary art at the Somerset College of Art. Later in the 1970's he trained and worked alongside artist Patrick Larking RP ROI. As a result Stephen came to admire and ...

Modern Art: Peter Burgess

Peter Burgess was born in 1952 in St Albans. He studied at Watford School of Art, Wolverhampton Polytechnic, Wimbledon School of Art, BA (Hons) and Royal Academy Schools, PGCE RAS .

Peter Burgess paints in a graphic and very distinctive way. Using strong colour ...

Paul Bursnall trained as a draughtsman and studied Product Design at Slough Technical College, Berkshire, in the south of England. Paul now lives in Buckinghamshire, where he has an art studio. As well as being a member of the Association of British Naïve Artists ...

Simon Davis was born in Stratford upon Avon, Warwickshire in 1968.

Simon Davis studied illustration and graphic design at Swindon college of Art. Following that he worked in graphic design studios between 1989 and ...

Born in Birmingham in 1950, David Eustace was encouraged by his school art teacher to follow an artistic career but financial constraints forced him to take up a carpentry apprenticeship. It was only some years later, when he was twenty-one, that he was able to return ...

David Farren was born in 1972 in Wiltshire. He studied art at Bristol.

David uses expressive brushwork and colour to represent the energy and movement of the urban landscape, providing a snapshot of everyday life. His aim is to capture the ambience and individuality of some ...

Romeo di Girolamo was born in Civitella Casanova, Italy in 1939. He moved to England with his family in 1949 and for much of his life has lived in Buckinghamshire.

Romeo di Girolamo's artistic qualities were first recognised and encouraged by the Headmaster of his village school ...

Sophie Harding grew up by the sea in Dorset and was encouraged to draw and paint throughout her childhood by her artistic family.

Sophie Harding's career started early and she has been selling her paintings since the age of sixteen. After graduating from Central St Martin's in ...

Ian Hargreaves was born in Blackpool in 1957, but grew up in Bournemouth on the south coast of England. He studied at Bournemouth College of Art from 1974 - 1976. After graduating he travelled in Europe, painting portraits, landscapes and scenes of everyday life observed ...

Judy Hempstead spent her childhood years living close to the sea near Dawlish on the South Devon coast. She studied art in Newton Abbot and then Goldsmiths College of Art in London. After graduation she taught for a number of years, first in London, then back ...

Nagib Karsan was born in Tanzania in 1955. He spent his early life in Africa and at boarding school in the UK. An enjoyment and talent for art resulted in Nagib undertaking an art course in Kenya before embarking on a varied career in business.

The 1990's ...

Karolina Larudottir was born in Reykjavik, Iceland in 1944. Larusdottir has lived and worked in the British Isles since the mid sixties. Karolina's biography was published in Iceland in 1993.

Karolina Larudottir studied contemporary art at the Ruskin School of Art in Oxford between1965 to 1967. In ...

Martin Leman has been best known for his exquisite paintings of cats. He is one of the most popular contemporary British artists, he also has an avid following abroad, especially in America and Japan. Leman's illustrated books have sold well over half a million copies and ...

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 from 1961 to 1962.

Lines has been exhibiting his contemporary paintings since leaving art school. But initially his time was ...

Jane Lion was born in London during the 1950's. She grew up in Beirut, Borneo, Singapore and later the Isle of Wight living in a nomadic lifestyle. Much of Jane Lion's life was spent on and by the sea which has undoubtedly influenced the subject content ...

Born in 1936 in Landywood, Staffordshire, Ronald Morgan studied art at Walsall School of Art (1951-53, with George Willott ARCA). He is a painter in watercolour, black and white, oil and pastel, Ronald Morgan is also a draughtsman, illustrator, linguist and teacher.

He is a member ...

Steven Outram was born in Dartford, Kent in 1953. Steven studied contemporary art at Medway College of Art, graduating in 1973.

As a young artist Steven Outram started exhibiting his contemporary paintings in modern art galleries before graduating from Art College. Since leaving ...

John Piper was born in 1946 in Salisbury, Wiltshire. He moved to Cornwall in 1963.

Cornwall has been a constant source of inspiration for Piper's paintings. He has been profoundly influenced by the Cornish countryside. John's paintings reflect his affinity with such wonderful natural surroundings.

John Piper ...

Mark Preston was born in Derby in 1976. He is the younger member of a well-known artistic family. Mark studied illustration at Anglia University in Cambridge, but it was sketching and painting trips with his father, Rex Preston, to the Peak District, Cornwall and Scotland that ...

Paul Robinson was born in Penrith, Cumbria in 1959. He grew up in the Cumbrian village of Lazonby, in the heart of the Eden Valley and later studied Fine Art at Carlisle College of Art.

After graduating Paul Robinson moved to London he began a successful ...

British artist Norman Smith was born in 1949. He studied Art and Design in Bristol

After an initial career in teaching Norman Smith became a full time artist in 1987. Norman's art work is predominantly pastel, a medium which is suited to the use of strong and ...

Paul Stone grew up on the Suffolk coast and began painting while completing his first degree in Art History in 1997. Since then he has painted alongside his many teaching jobs, including Painting Lecturer at Sheffield Hallam University. After completing his Masters in Fine Art ...

Born in 1972, on a dairy farm in the North of England, Andrew Talbot painted his first oil painting when he was 15 years old. 'I can still recall that first smell of linseed oil and distilled turpentine. I was hooked.'

Andrew studied at a local art ...

Alan Tyers was born in Coventry in 1944. He won a full time place in the School of Art at the age 13! Tyers trained in fine art, with particular emphasis on impressionism. He then left after five years to pursue a very different artistic ...

Bruce Yardley was born in 1962. Although he produced his first oil painting whilst at school in the 1970's he trained as an historian at the universities of Bristol and Oxford before joining the wine trade, first in retail, then as a freelance writer.

Bruce Yardley ...