Artists

Frederick J Haycock was born in Warwickshire in 1948, where he still lives with his family. He studied at both the Nuneaton School of Art and Coventry College of Art Design, where he trained as an illustrator. In Art college he was only interested in abstract and modern styles at the time. As such he… Read More

Profile Fine Art Trade Guild Award Winner: Best Artist 2010 Official Artist to the 2012 Olympic Games. Darren Baker has become one of the UK’s most collectable artists since his remarkable portrait of the Queen was unveiled by Princess Anne at Westminster Abbey in 2011. Darren has painted Prime Ministers, Royalty and the sporting elite,… Read More

DORIS LINDNER was born in Llanyre in Radnorshire, South Wales in 1896. She studied sculpture at St. Martin’s School of Art in London, the British Academy in Rome and at Calderons Animal School in London. Both her Abstract Sculpture and her Art Deco models were exhibited in Heals store in London in the 1920’s, where… Read More

SIR ALFRED JAMES MUNNINGS, KCVO, PRA. 8 October 1878 – 17 July 1959 He was and is today, known as one of England’s finest painters of horses, and as an outspoken enemy of Modernism. Engaged by Lord Beaverbrook’s Canadian War Memorials Fund, he earned several prestigious commissions after World War I that made him wealthy…. Read More

BASIL NIGHTINGALE 1864-1940 The son of an equestrian and sporting subjects Artist of some note – Robert Nightingale 1815-1895, who exhibited at the RA. Basil Nightingale was a sporting painter in both oil, pastel and watercolour. He worked near Melton Mowbray for some time, where he painted the famous portrait of ‘Tom Firr’ huntsman to… Read More

Andre Pater b.1953. Born in Poland and graduated from the Cracow Academy of Fine Arts ‘summa cum laude.’ He relocated to the United States in 1981. His reputation soon established, he moved to Kentucky in 1988 where he began to paint the powerful thoroughbreds which dominate the racing scene and, increasingly, scenes depicting racing, foxhunting,… Read More