Stephen Doig was born in Oxford in 1964 and his encounter with art began at an early age – pencil drawings and colour sketches were the foundation for the excellent work he produces today. A talented draughtsman, Steve’s work centered upon pencil sketching, however, the confidence to add colour in the form of pastel has […]

Described by Sotheby’s of London as “the best, there’s nobody else to touch him” and by The Mail on Sunday in January 1999 as “established as Britain’s top living marine artist”, Steven Dews is a man at the peak of his profession. Born in Yorkshire in 1949, Steven Dews’s meteoric rise to success from distinctly […]

Peter Deighan is one of Europe’s leading equestrian and portrait painters. He spent the first 14 years of his life on a farm in Ireland where looking after animals including working horses was second nature. He had already acquired a considerable reputation as a portrait painter before being introduced to the world of equestrianism. Deighan’s […]

Born in Chiswick, London, Dawson was the son and grandson of marine artists and he grew up to become perhaps the greatest marine artist of all time. Indeed, so successful was he that, at his peak, he was rumoured to be one of the two best-paid artists in the world, second only to Picasso. Early […]

Barry James Davis was born in Rainham Essex in 1961. He showed promise at a very early age and after winning his school’s art competition with a pencil drawing entitled “The Gunfighter” in which the prize was a set of oil pastels he began to use colour. He was constantly sketching various subjects and reading […]