

Inspirational Artists: The English Watercolour - Edward Seago
Edward Seago RBA ARWS RWS (1910 – 1974) was an English artist who painted in both oils and watercolours but is best known for his...


Inspirational Artists: Rowland Hilder
Rowland Frederick Hilder OBE (1905 - 1993) was an English marine and landscape artist and book illustrator best known for his winter...


Inspirational Artists: The Russians - Nicholai Fechin
If you ask me who i would love to be able to paint like, it wouldn't be a recognised master (well maybe a few) but it certainly would be...


Inspiring Artist: The Russians - Valentin Serov
Serov was born in Saint Petersburg, son of the Russian composer and music critic Alexander Serov and was encouraged to pursue his talents...


Inspiring Artists: The Russians - Ilya Repin
Ilya Yefimovich Repin 24 July 1844 – 29 September 1930 was a Russian realist painter and one of the most renowned Russian artist of the...


Inspirational Artists: Peter Scott
Having written about Keith Shackleton i need to also write about Peter Scott whose work i also discovered on the first visit to Louis and...


Inspirational Artists: Keith Shackleton
Our old neighbours in Bath invited us up to their apartment. Louis and Shelia had literally travelled the world and from the 60s to the...


Inspirational Artists: Jack Vettriano
No one divides the art world like Vettriano who left school at 16 and later became an apprentice mining engineer, then a bingo caller. He...


Inspirational Artists: Edward Hopper
Hopper was born in 1882 in Upper Nyack, New York, a yacht-building centre on the Hudson River. We all associate Hopper with New England...


Inspirational Artists: The Glasgow Boys - George Henry
Henry was born in Irvine, North Ayrshire, and studied at the Glasgow School of Art, later in Macgregor's studio, but learned most from...