Our Artists
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Craigie Aitchison CBE RSA, RA (1926 - 2009)One of Britain’s most popular and respected figurative artist. Employing a deliberately naive style he adopted a technique using careful measuring and thinly applied paint to achieve subtle colour harmonies . Many images contain religious imagery. |
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Anthony Atkinson RCA (1929)Painter of architectural and landscape themes in East Painter of East Anglia and Provence. Studied at Royal College of Art under Carel Weight. Was head of Colchester School of Art . Has exhibited at the Royal Academy, Victoria & Albert Museum and elsewhere. |
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Ted Atkinson R.E., FRBS (1934)Sculptor and printmaker. Innitially best known for his international architectural sculptures sited in Britain, Germany, Holland and USA |
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Charles Bartlett RWS RE ARCA (1921)Charles Bartlett is one of Britain’s foremost talented watercolour artists and printmakers. His artworks illustrate his love of the light in East Anglia, the flat landscape and the estuaries. |
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Richard Bawden RWS, NEAC, RE (1936)The son of Edward and Charlotte Bawden. Richard is a very versatile artist - he has worked on commissions, book illustrations, mural decorations, glass-engraving, cast-iron furniture design, teaching, and extensively exhibiting his watercolours and prints. |
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Dame Elizabeth Blackadder RSA, RSW, RA (1921)Dame Elizabeth Blackadder is widely known for her amazing images of cats and flowers. Her work can be seen at the Tate Gallery, Museum of Modern Art in New York and has appeared on a series of postage stamps. |
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Sir Peter Blake OBE (1932)Sir Peter Blake is acknowledged as The Grandfather of Pop Art plus designed Beatles Sergeant Pepper album. |
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Sandra Blow RA (1925 - 2006)Sandra Blow RA was one of the leading lights of the abstract art movement of the 1950s in St. Ives, Cornwall. |
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Patrick Caulfield CBE RA (1936 - 2005)Best known for his bold colours, black outlines and pioneering minimal way of expressing his subject |
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Eileen Cooper RA (1853)Well known as a printmaker and painter, her stylised work is characterised by the use of bold linear figures encompassing a playful narrative. |
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James Dodds RCA (1957)James Dodds trained as a shipwright in Maldon, but is better known for his distinctive linocuts depicting coastal towns and nautical myths and his large unique and beautiful paintings of boats. |
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John Doubleday (1947)His international reputation is more for public sculpture, howeever both his personal paintings and sculpture have a strong mystical sense as he contemplates ones journey through life. |
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Tracey Emin (1963)Tracey Emin is one of the so-called Young British Artists (YBAs). She is known for shocking the public with her intimate works of art - in particular her piece My Bed, which was part of the 1999 Turner Prize exhibition, and other works of a sexual nature. |
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Mary Fedden OBE RA (1915 - 2012)Mary was born in Bristol and studied at the Slade School of Fine Art. She developed her own unique style of painting imaginative bold quirky and colourful still lives, flowers, people reminiscent of artists such as Matisse and Braque. |
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Dame Elisabeth Frink RA (1930 - 1993)Leading British Sculptor and printmaker of 20th Century, known for her fascination with animals, in particular horses and male heads. |
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Sir Terry Frost OBE (1915 - 2003)Frost is a well known St. Ives artist recognized for his minimal exquisite bold colours, circular forms and abstract compositions. |
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Maggi Hambling CBE (1945)A very successful versatile, honest dynamic and bold artist committed to her subject. Arguably best known for her steel scallop shells installed on Aldeburgh beach. |
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Angela Harding (1960)Angela Harding is a printmaker and painter based in Rutland. Her delightful work is a reflection of her keen observation of the countryside and its inhabitants that surround her rural studio. |
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Andrew Hasler (1967)Known for his amazing paintings which depict the magical world of underwater sea life inspired by his other passion for diving. Subjects range from sharks, dolphins and turtles to clown fish and more. |
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Mark Hearld (1974)Hearld is fascinated by nature and its inhabitants. Foxes chickens, cattle and a array of plants and fauna regularly feature in his art works |
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Patrick Heron (1920 - 1999)Recognized as one of the great St. Ives artists. Heron was devoted to the analysis of natural forms and colours as a way to express the pleasure of sight believing it to be one of the most important human senses. |
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David Hockney (1937)David Hockney is arguably the best known painter of his generation worldwide. Notorious for his large colourful paintings reflecting life in California, recently enjoying a major exhibition at The Royal Academy, London. |
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John Hoyland RA (1934 - 2011)John Hoyland studied at Sheffield School of Art and the Royal Academy Schools. His work is represented in public collections including the Royal Academy of Arts, Tate and the Victoria & Albert Museum. He was elected to the Royal Academy in 1991. |
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Olwen JonesOwen Jones expresses her passion for the natural world with simply exquisite watercolours. Drawn to conservatories and green houses full of flowers, foliage and an abundance of natural sunlight. |
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Anita Klein PPREAnita Klein's paintings and prints are often autobiographical, incorporating reoccurring themes such as angels and wine or humorously celebrating the small moments in everyday life. |
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Karolina Larusdottir (1944)This artist creates a world of her own, with imaginary people maybe from memory or ideas which often involve floating angels and strange scenarios all wrapped up in a surreal and timeless atmosphere. |
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Kate LoweThis artist employs tropical decadent colours in her paintings to illustrate her passion of the sea, sky and landscape. Figures and some animals also feature in her work. |
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Henri Matisse (1869 - 1954)A pioneer of the Fauvist Movement he unashamedly wanted his work to fill peoples lives with colour, lift them up and make them feel optimistic about life. Regarded as one of the defining artists of the early 20th century. |
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Sir Henry Moore (1898 - 1986)He was best known for his semi-abstract monumental bronze sculptures which are located around the world as public works of art. The most famous British Sculptor in living memory, noted for his large bronze abstractions of the human figure, typically depicting mother-and-child or reclining figures. |
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Elizabeth MorrisLiz is a printmaker who enjoys islands and the sea. Sea and sand patterns, shapes of stones, textures, imprints in mud and tracks of birds, fish, gulls - and most recently – sea myths and biblical stories with sea references, are all used as starting points for her etchings |
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Bill Orchard (1940)In the 1960's & 70's Bill became a major part of the British Pop scene albeit behind the lens of a camera, capturing The Beatles, The Stones, David Bowie, Marc Bolan, Michael Jackson along with many other famous people. |
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Sir Eduardo Paolozzi KBE RA (1924 - 2005)One of the earliest British Pop Artists and artist. He major figure in the international art sphere who collected fragments and created his own interpretation and vision of the modern world. |
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Victor Pasmore (1908 - 1998)Perhaps the most influential abstract artist in Britain and leading abstract painters & printmaker of our time |
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John Piper RCA (1903 - 1992)Considered an important British Artist of 20th Century. Famous for his atmospheric images of ruined churches, castles and Stately Homes around the UK. |
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Patrick Procktor RA (1936 - 2002)Patrick Procktor RA was a prominent English artist of the late 20th century who had an exquisite sense of colour and design. |
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Barbara Rae CBE RA (1943)Rae's imagery combines influence of travel & sun drenched colour with human traces and patterns in the landscape to successfully create exotic abstract and semi abstract compositions. |
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Dame Paula Rego (1935)An artist interested in a powerful narrative who often draws from folk tales and stories told to her in her childhood which resonate today. |
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Bridget Riley CBE (1931)Riley is famous for being the pioneer of Op Art. Known for her geometric patterns which give a sensation to movement to move to the eye. In 1960's her black and white patterns greatly influenced the fashions and designs of the day |
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Michael Rothenstein RA (1908 - 1993)Early Pop Artist and pioneer of British printmaking. Also known as one of the Bardfield Artists |
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Arabella ShandUsing oils Arabella employs a delightful spectrum of seductive gentle colours with engaging compositions to lead the eye around the painting. Her main inspiration starts with domestic interiors and family life. |
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Stephanie StowStephanie is an abstract artist who paints using beautiful colours to convey her feelings towards nature and its ever changing patterns and moods. |
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Glynn Thomas RE (1946)Glynn Thomas specialises in Etchings of locations around the UK especially of places such as Walberswick, Southworld, Cambridge and London - which all mean something to him. He loves detail and uses additional perspectives to enable him to include even more in his pictures. |
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Michelle ThompsonMichelle has been at the forefront of illustration since graduating from the Royal College of Art in 1996. She has worked successfully in publishing, editorial and design in addition to being a fine artist. |
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Nicholas Ward RE (1950)Nicholas creates elegant detailed petite etchings often of forgotten landscapes old power stations, trains motorbikes converting expressing charm in unlikely places. |