Norman Cornish Norman Stansfield Cornish (1919 – 2014) was an English mining artist and contemporary and friend of Laurence Stephen Lowry RA RBA. Biography Norman Cornish is one of the most celebrated of the ‘mining painters’ of the last century and this. He was born in 1919 in Spennymoor in County Durham. Alike a number …
Duncan Palmar RSMA ‘I predominantly work on fine linen canvas and gessoed board that I prepare myself. Depending on the subject of my work, being warm or cold, I tint the boards accordingly.’ Biography Duncan was born in 1964 and began painting professionally in 1984, participating in numerous solo and shared exhibitions since. Duncan has …
Linda Alexander ROI In recent years her work has progressed into the world of still life painting. Here she still enjoys some of the same observations but her work is quieter and has become more contemplative in nature. Biography Linda Alexander’s early career as a qualified architect was spent working for a number of award …
Frippy Jameson Frippy Jameson studied Fine Art Sculpture at Camberwell College of Art and Design and City & Guilds of London Art School where she was awarded the Madame Tussaud Prize for Portraiture. She trained in stone-carving at The Portland Sculpture Trust, Tout Quarry and with traditional stone carvers of Mahabalipuram, Southern India. She came …
Brian Smith RI Brian began his career with 25 years of freelance illustration work allowing him to accrue a vast knowledge in a diverse range of skills in various mediums. Watercolour became his chosen path and after some years of experimentation and struggle, his commitment and love of the medium brought him success and recognition …
Michael Morgan RI Renowned Westcountry artist Michael Morgan enjoyed two distinguished careers firstly in academia and latterly as an artist whose ground-breaking style is widely considered to have added new life to the watercolour medium and subsequently influenced and guided many young artists. Biography Michael trained as a teacher with an MSc from Southampton University. …
Wayne Attwood PRBSA honRBA honRWA Born 1970 in Birmingham, England, his artistic ability was noted from an early age and he was encouraged throughout his education to explore art. After graduating art college in the West Midlands with a Diploma in Art & Design, he found a certain amount of success painting large historical works, …
Robert King RI RSMA Robert King is a painter in oils, watercolour and gouache also etching and lithography. Subjects include seascape and coastal scenes including the Solent and Norfolk. Robert King has exhibited at: The Royal Academy. Royal Society of Marine Artists. Biography Robert has always been interested in painting a wide variety of subjects using oils, watercolours, gouache and pastels …
Mike Bernard RI Mike Bernard was born in Kent in 1957 and trained at the West Surrey College of Art & Design in Farnham followed by Post Graduate Studies at the Royal Academy schools from 1978 to 1981. Biography Mike Bernard has been a peripatetic teacher at his alma mater, West Surrey College of Art …
David Hockney, OM, CH, RA Born in Bradford, England, in 1937, David Hockney attended art school in London before moving to Los Angeles in the 1960s. There, he painted his famous swimming pool paintings. In the 1970s, Hockney began working in photography, creating photo collages he called joiners. Biography Born in Bradford, England, in 1937, …
