Stephanie Rew, 1971 | Figurative painter

Stephanie Rew is a figurative artist based in Edinburgh UK.

Using oil paint as her primary medium her painting techniques are influenced by the Baroque and Rennaisance Masters.

Was born in Carlisle and spent her early years in Edinburgh.

She studied art at Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art in Dundee.

Miles Johnston, 1993 | Surreal Art

Miles Johnston is a conceptual artist and illustrator known for surreal pencil drawings.

- "I was born in the UK. I spent the first few years of my early childhood living in Brunei, Borneo, something that I am sure had a major effect on me.

The totally different environment gave me the intuition early on that there is no true 'normal'.

In hindsight I have always been interested in anything that helps to transform my perception of the mundane".

Charlotte Bird, 1958 | The Garden of Love

Charlotte Bird is an English photographer and artist, who uses children as models for her photographic shots, and then transforms them into fairies with the help of a digital post-production, or by combining elements and a background painted in watercolors.

His style is purely Victorian, with domestic environments or English courtyards, with warm and welcoming atmospheres.

Dave Coulter | Cityscape painter

Dave Coulter is a British artist who specializes in cityscapes.

As part of the Northern Art movement, his particular focus is on painting the streets of Manchester and Salford.

In his paintings, he captures the dynamic movement of the multifaceted cities that have been the inspiration for many painters before him.

Dave Coulter is, in essence, as much a part of the North as the scenes he paints.

Dame Ethel Walker | Impressionist painter

Dame Ethel Walker DBE ARA (1861-1951) was a Scottish painter of portraits, flower-pieces, sea-pieces and decorative compositions.

From 1936, Walker was a member of The London Group.

Her work displays the influence of Impressionism, Puvis de Chavannes, Gauguin and Asian art.

Anish Kapoor, 1954 | Sky Mirror | Steel sculptures

Sir Anish Mikhail Kapoor, CBE, RA is a British-Indian sculptor specializing in installation art and conceptual art.

Born in Mumbai, Kapoor attended the elite all-boys Indian boarding school The Doon School, before moving to the UK to begin his art training at Hornsey College of Art and, later, Chelsea School of Art and Design.

His notable public sculptures include Cloud Gate (2006, also known as "The Bean") in Chicago's Millennium Park; Sky Mirror, exhibited at the Rockefeller Center in New York City in 2006 and Kensington Gardens in London in 2010; Temenos, at Middlehaven, Middlesbrough; Leviathan, at the Grand Palais in Paris in 2011; and ArcelorMittal Orbit, commissioned as a permanent artwork for London's Olympic Park and completed in 2012.

Samuel Palmer | Romantic / Visionary painter

Samuel Palmer RWS Hon.RE (Hon. Fellow of the Society of Painter-Etchers) (1805-1881) was a British landscape painter, etcher and printmaker.

He was also a prolific writer.

Palmer was a key figure in Romanticism in Britain and produced visionary pastoral paintings.

Palmer painted churches from around age twelve, and first exhibited Turner-inspired works at the Royal Academy at the age of fourteen.

He had little formal training, and little formal schooling, although he was educated briefly at Merchant Taylors' School.

Zaha Hadid, the great Dame of Architecture

Dame Zaha Mohammad Hadid DBE RA (Arabic: زها حديد Zahā Ḥadīd; 31 October 1950 - 31 March 2016) was an Iraqi-British architect, artist and designer, recognized as a major figure in architecture of the late-20th and early-21st centuries.

Born in Baghdad, Iraq, Hadid studied mathematics as an undergraduate and then enrolled at the Architectural Association School of Architecture in 1972.

In search of an alternative system to traditional architectural drawing, and influenced by Suprematism and the Russian avant-garde, Hadid adopted painting as a design tool and abstraction as an investigative principle to "reinvestigate the aborted and untested experiments of Modernism [...] to unveil new fields of building".

Sylvia Gosse | Post-Impressionist painter

Laura Sylvia Gosse (1881-1968) was an English painter and printmaker.

She also ran an art school with the painter Walter Sickert.

Laura Sylvia Gosse, known as Sylvia, was the youngest of three children of Ellen (Epps) Gosse and English poet and critic Sir Edmund Gosse.

Her grandfather was the naturalist Philip Henry Gosse, and the painter Lawrence Alma-Tadema was her uncle by marriage.

Richard Eurich | Modern painter

Richard Ernst Eurich, OBE, RA (14 March 1903 - 6 June 1992) was an English painter who worked as a war artist to the Admiralty in the Second World War and was also known for his panoramic seascapes and narrative paintings.

These were often invested with a sense of mystery and wonder which have tended to set him apart from mainstream development of art in the twentieth century.

Bloomsbury Group

Roger Fry | A london garden

Bloomsbury is the name commonly used to identify a circle of intellectuals and artists who lived in Bloomsbury, near central London, in the period 1904-1940.

In 1905, a group of writers and intellectuals began to meet at the London home of the artist Vanessa Bell and her writer sister Virginia Woolf to share ideas and support each other’s creative activities… their meetings continued for the next three decades.

They were in revolt against everything Victorian and played a key role in introducing many modern ideas into Britain.

Vanessa Bell | Post-Impressionist painter

Vanessa Bell (née Stephen; 30 May 1879 - 7 April 1961) was an English painter and interior designer, a member of the Bloomsbury Group and the sister of Virginia Woolf (née Stephen).

Vanessa Stephen was the elder daughter of Sir Leslie Stephen and Julia Prinsep Duckworth.

The family included her sister Virginia, brothers Thoby (1880-1906) and Adrian (1883-1948), half-sister Laura (1870-1945) whose mother was Harriett Thackeray and half-brothers George and Gerald Duckworth; they lived at 22 Hyde Park Gate, Westminster, London.

Roger Fry | Post-Impressionist painter and Art critic

The British art historian, curator, critic and painter Roger Eliot Fry (London, 1866-1934) was one of the foremost advocates of modern art of his time and was largely responsible for introducing modern French art to Anglophone audiences in Great Britain and the United States.

As a member of the Bloomsbury Group, cofounder of the Omega Workshops, curator at The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, and professor of art at Cambridge University in the United Kingdom, Fry remains among the most important critical voices on art in the early twentieth century.

Martin Leighton, 1951 | Figurative painter

Born in Montrose Scotland, Martin has lived in Weymouth in the beautiful county of Dorset from the age of 2 years.

Martin is a self-taught artist specialising in oils on canvas and he has been painting professionally since 2003 when he opened his own gallery and working studio close to Weymouth harbour side, situated on the first floor of a beautifully converted Grade II listed building.

However the gallery closed in October 2016 to enable Martin to concentrate on new works for various exhibitions and commissions.

Edwin Harris | Genre painter

Edwin Harris (1855-1906) was an British painter from Ladywood, Birmingham.

Harris entered the Birmingham School of Art at the age of fourteen, where he worked under Charles Morgan, F G Jackson and Edward R Taylor.

Fellow students included Walter Langley, William John Wainwright and William Breakspeare.

Harris was appointed as assistant master and after two years set up his own studio, painting pictures and giving lessons.

Mary Beale | Baroque painter

Mary Beale (née Cradock; bapt. 26 March 1633 – bur. 8 October 1699) was an English portrait painter.

She was part of a small band of female professional artists working in London.

Beale became the main financial provider for her family through her professional work - a career she maintained from 1670/71 to the 1690s.

Beale was also a writer, whose prose Discourse on Friendship of 1666 presents scholarly, uniquely female take on the subject.

Frederick Sandys | Pre-Raphaelite painter

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Sandys, born Anthony Frederick Augustus Sands at Norwich, studied under his father Anthony Sands, a drawing master and portrait and subject painter.

He was educated at Norwich Grammar School and at the Government School of Design at Norwich.

An early patron was the Revd James Bulwer, Rector of Stody and a former pupil of Cotman.

Sandys made architectural and antiquarian drawings for him and etched his drawings.

Emma Sandys | Pre-Raphaelite painter

Emma Sandys (born Mary Ann Emma Sands) (1843-1877) was a 19th-century British Pre-Raphaelite painter.

Emma Sandys was born in Norwich, where her father, Anthony Sands (1806-1883), gave her some early art lessons.

In 1853 the family added a ‘y’ to their surname.

Arthur Claude Strachan | British Cottages

Predominantly a landscape and cottage painter in watercolour, Arthur Claude Strachan (1865-1935) was born in Edinburgh on 15th March 1865, the son of George Strachan, an architect, and his wife, Mary (née Dalrymple).

He studied art in Liverpool and later travelled throughout the UK painting the country landscapes.

Between 1885-1929 he exhibited in London and in the provinces and also showed four works at the Royal Academy.

The whole Strachan family moved to Liverpool some time in the 1880s.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning | Come ti amo? / How Do I Love Thee?

Come ti amo? Lascia che conti tutti i modi.

Ti amo con la profondità, la vastità, l'altezza

che l'anima mia raggiunge quando smarrita tocca i confini

dell'essere e della grazia ideale.

Harriet Hosmer | Clasped Hands of Robert and Elizabeth Barrett Browning | Harvard University, Cambridge