Artists

Born in Yorkshire in 1915 David Rolt was one of the most sought-after English portrait and landscape painters of the 1940s and ’50s. From the early 1940s his landscapes and portraits – characterized by their bold line and use of colour - were being shown at the Royal Academy and New English Art Club.

Born in Yorkshire in 1915 David Rolt was one of the most sought-after English portrait and landscape painters of the 1940s and ’50s. From the early 1940s his landscapes and portraits – characterized by their bold line and use of colour - were being shown at the Royal Academy and New English Art Club.

Born in Yorkshire in 1915 David Rolt was one of the most sought-after English portrait and landscape painters of the 1940s and ’50s. From the early 1940s his landscapes and portraits – characterized by their bold line and use of colour - were being shown at the Royal Academy and New English Art Club.

Tim Mara was the leading printmaker of his generation.

Born in Romania, Zsofi Margit recently graduated from the Royal Academy Schools in London having previously studied at the University for Fine Arts in Budapest.  Much of her work is a contemporary take on the tradition of still life, focusing on everyday objects, materials and spaces. The pair of works here were first shown in the Flock 2017 ...

Born in Murcia, Spain in 1942, Manuel Marin became a bullfighter at age 16 before travelling to England, then to the USA, where he developed a love for sculpture, especially the work of Alexander Calder, whose influence can clearly be seen in the fine works in metal and primary colours on show here.

Barry Martin became the most versatile and prolific British exponent of Kinetic Art in London in the ‘Swinging Sixties’ and early Seventies. To the generations still seeking to escape the towering influence of Henry Moore, Kinetic Art offered a European alternative to the Anglo-American options of Pop Art, Abstract Expressionism, Conceptual A...

Born in Chile, Matta became an important figure in the evolution of Surrealism, painting dreamlike, internal “inscapes” early on and, later, intense compositions reflecting the psychic damage caused by Europe’s ongoing wars. Shifting biomorphic shapes painted or drawn in vivid colours populated Matta’s often-apocalyptic scenes, conveying conf...

Fiona McIntyre is a founding member of The Arborealists. Her work appears in our exhibition Artists who love trees.

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Villi Leopol’dovich Mokrozhitsky, born Khakov, Ukraine in 1928, was a stalwart of the Socialist Realist school, whose work celebrated the Soviet revolutionary spirit.

All the works by Cavendish Marton shown here featured in the “When they were young…” touring exhibition during 2016.  TMore information about this exhibition in our NEWS section.

A Modern British artist who deserves to be better known, Bernard Myers’ work very successfully bridges the abstract/figurative divide in British art of the mid 20th century.

For more information about Britain’s most humorous artist take a look at his Royal Academy web page: https://www.royalacademy.org.uk/artist/chris-orr-ra

British artist 1927 - 2005. Federation of British Artists. Royal Institute of Oil Painters. Other works are held by the Russel Cotes Art Gallery, Bournemouth.

One of the most distinctive and original British artists of the 20th century, Paolozzi’s work embraced painting, sculpture and design.

John Pawle’s biography is more like that of Boy’s Own hero than a typical artist. A gifted sportsman who played cricket for Harrow and Cambridge and was a world class rackets player, he fought in destroyers in the Royal Navy, before becoming a stockbroker after the war.  It was only when he reached retirement age that he took up painting in e...

Born in Edmonton in 1908, Llewellyn began learning his craft from magazines, books and other sources and quickly showed a gift for painting and drawing. After working as a bank clerk for three years, he turned to painting. In 1927 he became a member of the Edmonton Art Club and in 1931 one of the original members of the Alberta Society of Art...

Bio from Brooks gallery: Tom Phillips was born in London in 1937. He attended St Catherine’s College, Oxford in 1957, where he read English and at the same time studied drawing at the Ruskin School. In 1961 he went to Camberwell School of Art where his chief source of inspiration was Frank Auerbach. He went on to teach at Bath Acade...

Born in 1940 Jonas Plosky studied at Hornsey College of Art, then made his living as a designer and illustrator while developing his strong talent as a landscape painter. Many of his landscapes feature the fells, dales and upland, especially of North Wales. But it was also the diversity of his work - reflected in the three very different work...

A bold colourist with a strong sense of geometry Dan typically portrays cityscapes where day and night seem to merge and where you can’t be sure if the light is natural or artificial. Though there is hardly a human figure to be seen in these paintings, the colours are warm, and the stark city environment is often suffused with a bold, vivid c...

Patrick Procktor (born in 1936) first came to fame when his work - along with that of David Hockney, John Hoyland and Bridget Riley - featured in the New Generation exhibition at the Whitechapel Gallery in 1962.  Generally recognised as one of the most important artists of that generation, he was a close friend of Francis Bacon, Derek Jarman ...

Unique among British artists, Alan Reynolds changed the course of his career dramatically in his early 30s. Until then his work had focussed on the plants and landscape of his native Suffolk and rural Kent, but in 1968 he abandoned representational painting completely in favour of “the concrete image”, typically geometric tonal images and rel...

Adrian Ryan (1920 - 1998) went to Eton as a boy, studied at the Slade and taught at Goldsmith’s College. Much of his painting was done in Suffolk, France and Cornwall; his work was shown at among others the Royal Academy, Redfern gallery and London Group exhibitions.

Brian Sayers was born in Bromley and was educated at the Slade School of Art between 1974 and 1978. Although an accomplished portraitist and sometime landscape painter, Sayers is best known for his dense and haunting still life paintings. Sayers often arranges objects in a grid-like pattern on a tabletop, yet the objects appear to have no dir...

Melissa Scott-Miller is a portraitist whose favourite subject is a city: London.

Peter Sedgley has been described as ‘one of the most single-minded of artists’. After abandoning his career as an architect, he devoted himself to the exploration of colour relationships. Like other members of the emerging Op art movement of the 1960s, Sedgley was fascinated by optical sensations produced by intricate geometric patterns and p...

Nahem Shoa is a member of The Arborealists, a group of artists with a keen interest in trees, and is also a leading portrait painter, whose work has attracted attention for its large scale formats and bold sense of colour. Watch the video to get a full idea of his boldly original work.

Stan Smith was a very prolific artist; as well as the figurative fine art he is best known for, he also produced and illustrated a wide range of teaching and guide books about painting and drawing. The illustrations he created are delightful works of art in their own right and demonstrate Stan’s extraordinary ability to turn his hand to every...

While Stan Smith may be best known for his painting of the human figure, his studies of buildings, gardens, landscapes, seascapes and all things topological are second to none in their diversity and brio. Among them you will find locations, such as Venice, that are beloved by almost all artists, great cities like Hong Kong and Prague, as well...

Few 20th century artists display greater enthusiasm and deftness at portraying the human figure than Stan Smith.

George Adolphus Storey RA (1834-1919) was an English portrait painter, genre painter and illustrator.

Benjamin Sullivan, born in 1977, is best known as a portrait painter. He won the BP Portrait Award in 2017 for “Breech”, a remarkably honest and tender portrait of his wife suckling their baby daughter.  Other notable works include “All Souls Triptych”, a large group portrait of the staff of All Souls college, Oxford, and more recently,  port...

Photo: National Portrait Gallery

Sometimes we come across works by artists we cannot identify, maybe because their work is unsigned or a signature is illegible.

Jacqueline, based in Cornwall, is a member of The Arborealists, the group of artists who share a special affinity for trees. Her work has been shown in our exhibition, Artists who love trees, June 2020.

Photo: artist’s self portrait in National Portrait Gallery

Alex Wheeler, a star of our Artists over 75 project , was a successful sculptor but now finds chiselling stone a bit hard to manage and is retraining as a painter. She is currently a pupil of another our featured artists, Melisa Scott-Miller, at Heatherley’s fine art school in Chelsea.

One of our aims is offer a showplace for the work of  artists who deserve greater recognition. David White is a veteran British artist who perfectly fits this category.  Now in his late seventies, David was an infant when the Luftwaffe was bombing British cities during World War Two. He became a pupil of the Manchester painter Norman Shackloc...

Born in Johannesburg, South Africa, Edward Wolfe came to London in 1916 where he studied at the Regents Street Polytechnic and the Slade School of Art. In 1917 he was invited by Roger Fry to join the Omega Workshops and exhibited with them the following year. He was one of the first to champion Henri Matisse who remained a lasting influence o...

A  convenient grouping of all our one-off pieces produced by a wide range of artists.

Not to be confused with the Irish painter of similar name, Jack Yates was an English painter who lived in London and taught at the Camden Art Centre.