Inspirational Artists: Joaquin Sorolla
Joaquín Sorolla was a painter who could capture movement, light and the brightness of his Spanish sunlight and sea water like no other....
Inspirational Artists: John Singer Sargent
John Singer Sargent is one of those great artists who can paint in many mediums and styles and produce quality works and is often...
Inspirational Artists:James Abbott Whistler
Whistler may be remembered for his painting of his mother, but the etchings of Victorian life on the River Thames and around Wapping...
Inspirational Artists: Pierre-Auguste Renoir
Renoir's paintings are notable for their vibrant use of light and shade and saturated colour. He is not afraid to capture a crowed bar,...
Inspirational Artists: Edgar Degas
I grew up with a print of Degas hanging on the living room wall but never really appreciated it or the artist and didn't understand why...
Inspirational Artists: James Webb
Sometimes you can be looking at a pile of junk and something says, 'wait a minute!' I remember being down what i know as Alfie's at the...
Inspirational Artists: Ken Howard
Sometimes you can look at a painting and ask , 'how did he do that?' Howard's work sometimes begs that question especially when it comes...
Inspirational Artists: The English Watercolour - Trevor Chamberlian
Once again Stocksbridge Art Gallery introduced me to Trevor Chamberlain's works and I acquired two watercolours; one of yachts on the mud...
Inspirational Artists: The English Watercolour - John Yardley
I remember the first real artwork i bought was a Yardley watercolour of a vase of flowers which i bought in the presence of the man...
Inspirational Artists: The English Watercolour - Edward Wesson
Edward Wesson was born in Blackheath, London in 1910 and the tidal waters of the River Thames and its badges gave him his early...
