The early years of my career were concentrated on studying real life form, learning the strict techniques that were necessary to replicate the details of both animal and human surface anatomy and form. I was very diverse in my subjects which I found helped me to learn many different technical skills and problem solving techniques that were necessary to help me master my medium of wood, enabling me to manipulate it in any way that my subjects dictated..........

A semi reclusive and shy man in his home country of Poland, Andrzej is quietly producing some fabulous evocative artwork that seems to be capturing the imagination of art lovers worldwide who have been fortunate enough to see it. Working in oils, on canvas or board, his unique interpretation of form and space, together with an unconventional, almost mystical presentation, provide the viewer with emotional and surreal visions. His work inspires the imagination, stimulates the senses and may even provoke the viewer to investigate their own thoughts and beliefs in the light of his powerful and atmospheric images.

Anne Cherry was born in Kent in 1948. She studied Fashion for three years at the Birmingham College of Art and Design, and then won a place at the Royal College of Art where she studied for a further two years and obtained her M.A.

For two years she worked for a couture house, and then began to concentrate on her drawing, soon moving to become a freelance fashion illustrator working for fabric houses and magazines.

Christine was born in Cardiff in 1960. During late 70's she went to Glasgow and attended a Fine Art Course in Glasgow University. Before finishing the course she moved to Tehran with her family and continued studying and practising painting.

Colin Kent was born in London and now lives in Essex. He studied painting and architecture at Walthamstow College of Art, and worked for a number of years as an architect. He was elected a member of the Royal Institute in 1971.

Colin's water colours provoke immediate contemplation. His atmospheric compositions are stark, often haunting, yet always compelling.

Born in 1964, Duncan started painting professionally aged 19 and had his first exhibition that year. Soon after this he gave up painting to study Architecture in London but returned to pursue his career as a full time artist a few years later and has continued to attract collectors who appreciate fine oil and watercolour paintings.

Elvira Pyrkova was born in 1970 in Arsamas, Nizhni Novgorod, Russia.
In 1980 she was selected to study at the Central Art School, part of the Vasily Ivanovich Surikov Art Institute, graduating in 1988. Whilst there, she studied under Alexander Smirnof, Natalya Bereznaya and Serguei Andreyaca, The National Acquarelle Gallery being named after him.

Escha van den Bogerd was born in The Hague, Holland ,and started painting at the age of 3.In the Hague she attended the Rudolf Steiner school, a school with many art subjects including painting, drawing and art history.

After leaving school Escha studied art in Florence, Italy, Salzburg, Austria and her home country Holland. Inspiration comes from many different things, the old masters Caravaggio, Rembrandt, Da Vinci etc. who created a beautiful sense of light. Movies set in olden times and places like Venice, Florence, and the Middle East. But inspiration can also come from people, experiences good or bad and simply just life itself can create new emotions on the canvas.

Eugeniusz was born in 1954 in Bydgoszcz (Poland) and graduated at the Lyceum Secondary School.
He is a self taught artist who has a unique talent to capture movement and atmosphere in his beautiful vibrant and colourful abstract creations.

 Born in the Far East of Russia, Evgeniya Filatova began to draw almost before she could walk and her natural ability enabled her to win her first regional Infant Drawing Competition at the age of five. From this early age she progressed into exploring and experimenting with different media and it soon became clear through the quality of her work, that inevitably, as she matured, she would be destined for much greater artistic recognition.

Long regarded as one of the UK’s finest contemporary figurative artists, Gordon King possesses the all too rare ability to capture with pleasing accuracy, not just a likeness of the people he paints, but their mood and feelings along with the atmosphere of their surroundings. Since childhood he has developed this ability through school, university and beyond, gaining experience and honing his skills to perfection over the years to earn him the high profile he so richly deserves today.

Harry Price studied at Hereford College of Art and West Of England College of art in the 1950\'s, later gaining an MA at Middlesex Polytechnic. He devoted his life to teaching. After 20 years he retired from the Faculty of Art at Coventry University. The artist was then able to concentrate on his lifelong passion for painting exquisite botanical studies. Many hours were absorbed in exploring every detail of his subject which he portrayed in water colour with great skill and sensitivity. Although still as passionate about his botanical work, Harry\'s interest wandered into the fascination for his urban surroundings and in particular their reflections. This new interest is opening many new doors and is proving to be a subject that draws in his audience from all age groups.

Ivan Lapper produced 12 paintings of the Tower of London for the Tower Hill Environs Centre, which was opened by the Queen in the summer of 2004. Of his reconstruction paintings of the Tower, 14 are now in the Royal Collection.

Ivan won the Charles Pears Award (for the best painting by a non-member) at the Royal Society of Marine Artists' annual exhibition at the Mall Galleries in 2006, and again in 2007.

Kate originally trained in sculpture, graduated from Sheffield in 1986. She then followed a career in theatre-design and as a freelance designer ......

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Leo McDowell was brought up and educated in the North of England. His early paintings were of moorland scenes around Ilkley in Yorkshire. After studying Modern Languages at the universities of Manchester and Cambridge and History of Art at Innsbruck University he spent eight years teaching in the Middle East and participated in archaeological studies and excavations in North Africa, Turkey, Cyprus and Jordan

An artist from Puerto de la Cruz, whose entire life is devoted to endless creativity she draws, paints, designs and writes perpetually such that her work has now become part of the artistic heritage of the island of Tenerife.
Elsewhere, her global reach spans South America to South Korea and Japan to Iceland and her evocative works can be seen in government and corporate buildings worldwide.
She depicts the human form and countenance through the skilful intermix of diverse media to produce striking vibrant images which never fail to introduce mystery and excitement to any setting in which they are placed. Her imaginative and powerful use of materials and colour make her work instantly recognisable and much sought after wherever impact and drama are required.
Magda Rivera’s growing importance is undeniable. She leaves the viewer and the lucky owners of her work in no doubt about her status and influence in the creative world.

Martin Caulkin was born in Birmingham in 1945, where he studied Graphics and Illustration at Birmingham College of Arts and Crafts. In the 1970s he moved to London, working as a freelance illustrator and teacher. When some of his work was published in print form and distributed throughout Europe and the US, it instigated a move to rural Worcestershire with his wife Anne.

Mat’s father is an architect and Mat trained for several years to follow in his footsteps.

Having studied architecture at Sheffield University he then continued his training at the Royal College of Art before realising that his true vocation lay in being a full time professional artist.

Her current project ‘The creative Face’ is an eclectic portrait collection of the people who made the early 1980s so colourful, it will be launched in Las Vegas, 2012. This follows her previous collection featuring some of the world’s best known names in modern music, including Paul Weller, Toyah and Rick Wakeman, and is already attracting collectors worldwide.

Mike Bernard trained at the West Surrey College of Art & Design, Farnham, followed by postgraduate studies at the Royal Academy Schools. He now lives and works near Ilfracombe, Devon, where he also teaches classes and runs workshops.

Mike enjoys experimenting with media and techniques in his paintings, often using mixed media incorporating collage and acrylics.

Born in Yaroslavl in 1959, Mikhail Priorov studied at the Art School from 1973 to 1977 and graduated from Moscow Art College in 1982. He pursued his artistic training at the famous Stroganoff Art University, graduating in 1987 when he began to work at the Zagorsk Artistic Fund. That same year Mikhail joined the International Federation of Artists. Since 1981 Mikhail has participated in numerous local, national and international exhibitions.

Oleg Trofimov was born in 1962 in a city called Krasnoarmeisk, Russia. He was the first in the family to go into the art field. Oleg started painting at the age of 5. In the kindergarten, during an art project, instead of drawing flowers and houses like all the other kids, Oleg drew an US plane bombing Vietnam. At that time the war in Vietnam was in at its peak, and the drawing made a huge impression on everyone. 

Peter was born in 1946 in Middlesex. On leaving school he went straight into his first job as a studio junior for a card company, where his innate artistic talent was recognised. Here he spent five years studying lettering and design - his first artistic training - which gave him a solid grounding in colour awareness and formal structure.

Raphael began painting at the age of seven in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. His source of inspiration has always been the objects of everyday life and the natural world that surrounds him, fascinated by their colours, patterns, shapes and textures. Rather than paint exactly what he sees, Raphael prefers to let his response to his surroundings be guided by his paintbrush.

Roberto was born on 1964 in Latina, where he lives and works. He belongs to an artist's family, so he was deeply influenced by art since he was very young.

When he was only a child already demonstrated his predisposition to drawing and painting, and this passion will characterize his whole adolescence. The artist's style, despite of his young age, is receiving more and more good critics and collectors enjoyment.

His great interest for art and his strong needs to express his emotions and feelings on the canvas, made this artist as a symbol of our time.

His personal showings have always been successful beginning from 1989. Paintings by Roberto Di Viccaro are present in many private collections by important people from show-business and culture world. Several national and international newspapers have published reviews about his works.

Roger Dellar is a self - taught professional. Born in St. Albans in 1949 he has painted since childhood. He holds the City and Guilds Cerficate of Technical Teaching and teaches Art in adult education in Surrey, Sussex and Essex. He runs studio courses and is in demand as a demonstrator for local art societies in the southern counties. This is his fifth year at Crugsillick; he has also tutored painting holidays in Umbria, Italy, Greece and Turkey.

Born in London of Italian/British parents, Rosa spent her formative years living between Venice and London. She acquired a love of art from her Italian grandfather, artist Salvatore Casagrande.

Over the past decade Rosa has become one of the most enigmatic and collectable artists in the UK. Rosa’s rapid ascent to success and acclaim can be attributed to her natural flair for depicting the small pleasures...

Scott Mattlin is an artist with a deep and passionate appreciation for beauty in the natural world and within the human spirit. This enthusiastic and sensitive joy is reflected strongly in his artwork.

His work is executed in a vibrant, impressionistic style which, while still retaining its representational roots, incorporates abstract elements, resulting in a uniquely contemporary union.

Sergei Inkatov, an Estonian artist of Armenian origin, produces original and immediately recognisable paintings, and is achieving increasingly widespread international acclaim.

His work has proved highly collectable in Moscow and St Petersburg, and he has enjoyed successful exhibitions in Germany, Spain, Finland, Russia, USA as well as Estonia.

Another of the Hillier Gallery’s amazingly talented artists, Shazia has, since graduating from the Winchester School of Art, dedicated her artistic abilities .......

Souren Mousavi was born in Persia in 1969 to an Iranian mother and Bahraini father, with ancestry linked to the Iranian monarchy. Graduating with a fine art masters degree from the University of Tehran, Souren began to explore an interest in women’s rights. She was inspired to use her art to convey her thoughts and feelings, becoming an active campaigner.
Souren’s primary subject of the female form was deemed pornographic and offensive by the regime

Born in Glasgow in 1956 Steve grew up in Dumfries and studied at art school. Upon leaving, he became an apprentice electrician for a brief period, as he was uncertain of where his artistic path led.

In 1973, Carlisle College offered him a placement, where, during the second year, he opted for a change in medium, preferring photography to painting.

Sue studied Fine Art with James Hockey at the West Surrey College of Art & Design. She has painted with the Société des Pastellistes de France and with her frequent visits to the US, Europe and South Africa, she has been inspired to produce much of the work in her present collection.

Sue is interested in portraiture and has worked with Ken Paine PS., SPF. the Portrait Painter at Hampton Court.

Vladimir Ryabchikov was born to an artist’s family and was tutored in his early years by the famous Russian artist Timophey Teryaev.

He has received many diplomas and awards from the Russian Union of Artists for participating in exhibitions and for his personal contribution to the culture of Russia.