Richard Blunt | Historia de un amor

- Born in Stourbridge in the West Midlands I had a happy but pretty average childhood for a kid growing up in the eighties.

My favourite place to be was outside but if I was ever inside I loved to be creative, especially with art and later on playing guitar and music.

On leaving school I went to art college to study 3D design and although I enjoyed the course, as with many teens I was easily distracted and became easily derailed.

I soon began to lose my way and eventually dropped out of art college early.

Bob Stroody | Fantasy painter

Stroody (Bob) is a British digital painter, graphic designer, photographer and illustrator of the UK.

Pictures Bob's full of magical beauty and fabulousness and performed at the highest professional level.

Stroody's signature portfolios focus primarily on surreal, atmospheric landscapes.

His work frequently features vibrant color play, seasonal transformations (especially autumn and winter themes) and mystical wonderland aesthetics.

Adebanji Alade ROI, 1972 | Cityscape painter

Adebanji Alade ROI, otherwise known as The Addictive Sketcher’, features regularly on the BBC’s The One Show, and can often be found sketching travellers on the London Underground.

He trained at Yaba College of Technology in Nigeria, later obtaining a diploma in portraiture from Heatherley’s School of Fine Art in Chelsea, where he now teaches.

He is also the founder of The Addictive Sketchers Movement (his online art school) where he inspires and teaches students all over the world how to sketch anything they see accurately and confidently.

Cecil Kennedy | Flower painter

Cecil Kennedy (1905-1997) was a painter in oils who specialised in flowers becoming one of the popular British flower painters of his time.

Cecil Kennedy was celebrated as one of the finest horticultural and still-life artists of the 20th century.

He is best known for his extraordinarily detailed and luminous flower arrangements, which critics frequently compared to the works of the 17th-century Dutch and Flemish Old Masters.

After training at art school in London, Paris, Antwerp and Zürich, Kennedy studied under a number of artists, the most influential being Nieco Jungmann.

Paul Knight, 1965 | Realist painter

Paul Knight was born and lives in Nottinghamshire, England.

In 2007 he renewed his interest in art, and after a period of two years decided to pursue art education by enrolling in a Fine Art degree course at Nottingham University.

He continues to work on the degree course, and while taking a break from it, he has set up a small drawing workshop.

This has driven him in the direction of developing a traditional method of cast and still life work that incorporates modern concepts.

Paul is very interested in modern American artists who show a resurgence into Realism.

Patrick McDonald | Flamenco Dancers

Patrick McDonald, British painter, was born in Manchester.

His painting show big sensibility and beauty.

McDonald has created a world of ethereal beauty.

Softness of shapes with an explosion of colours makes his creations absolutely unique.

The paintings show the inner subtleties which find its way out in a daring, free and often majestic compositions.

Pat shows what freedom of space really is, be it the stage or a vast ocean.

Aldo Balding, 1960 | Figurative painter

Aldo Balding is a prominent contemporary British figurative artist and portrait painter known for his romantic, cinematic style.

Balding identifies primarily as a tonalist painter, building his compositions on light, shadow, and color harmony rather than rigid lines.

His work is deeply influenced by legendary masters like John Singer Sargent, Anders Zorn and Joaquín Sorolla.

His paintings look like frozen stills from classic mid-century movies.

David Hockney, the iconic British painter has died aged 88

David Hockney (9 July 1937 - 11 June 2026) was a British painter, printmaker, stage designer and photographer.

As an important contributor to the Pop Art movement of the 1960s, he is considered one of the most influential British artists of the twentieth century.

He began this style of art by taking Polaroid photographs of one subject and arranging them into a grid layout.

The subject would actually move while being photographed so that the piece would show the movements of the subject seen from the photographer’s perspective.