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...
'Cabra de montaña mallorquina en la cima del mundo'
This painting was inspired by my walk between Valldemossa and Deià in or should i say on top, of Serra de Tramuntana Mountains of...
Pollos de primavera bajo las naranjas
In March the fields around Soller are awash in yellow flowers. Its like a sea of yellow which brightens up everything it touches. In...
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...
