About Artist

I am an artist specialising in Name Illustration. At first glance my ‘alphabet name’ paintings are colourful, pretty, unusual and complex. They appeal to children and parents alike, and are especially appropriate as a gift for a new baby – a time when everyone revels in the joy of a new arrival and name in the family. Read more

The artist David Hardy produced his first space art in 1950, at the age of just 14, and illustrated his first book, entitled “Suns, Myths and Men”, for Patrick Moore in 1954 when he was just 18. As a young man, he worked at Cadbury’s, near to his home in Bournville, painting chocolate boxes whilst learning his trade as an illustrator, and then he became a freelance painter and illustrator in 1965. Read more

One of ArtyPrints featured artists, Melissa Lundberg studied in Italy and America focusing on representational art before returning to establish herself in Stockholm, Sweden where she has her own studio. She teaches locally and is a member of the Swedish Art Association. Read more

Ingrid Abery was born in London in the late 1960s but grew up in Sussex. Her childhood was spent by the sea, often photographing and painting it, and her artistic career thus began at a very young age, progressing towards sculpting and even stone carving. Read more

The son of a Dutch minister, Vincent van Gogh was born in 1853 and took up painting around 1880 after working as an art dealer, a teacher and a missionary. He worked prodigiously, supported by his parents and by his brother, Theo, concentrating particularly on scenes of peasant life. Read more

His family's travels took him to London, where he studied for his degree before training as an illustrator. As a result of the training he received at this stage of his life, he has a keen interest in the more 'traditional' use of materials like ink, charcoal and pencil and in media like drawing and painting, but over recent years he has also been increasingly drawn to the creative opportunities available through the use of new digital media. He tries therefore, wherever possible, he says "to merge the old and the new to create a winning combination". Read more

This German landscape artist travelled extensively, and is renowned for his paintings of towering and atmospheric mountain ranges. Read more

This German landscape artist travelled extensively, and is renowned for his paintings of towering and atmospheric mountain ranges. Bierstadt is particularly known for his paintings of North American mountain ranges, which he often undertook on huge canvasses, mirroring the scale of his subjects. He is sometimes referred to as belonging to the Rocky Mountain School of artists. Read more

Beatrix Potter is perhaps the best-known author and illustrator of children’s books of all time. Visitors from around the globe flock in thousands to the picturesque Lake District farmhouse home, Hill Top Farm, in which she completed most of her charming water-colours. Read more

Ingrid Abery was born in London in the late 1960s but grew up in Sussex. Her childhood was spent by the sea, often photographing and painting it, and her artistic career thus began at a very young age, progressing towards sculpting and even stone carving. Read more

Although her very earliest memories recall her love of the bright colours of poster paint and her anticipation of what she could achieve with them, as a young child she found art extremely difficult and did not really consider a career in the arts world until she became involved in set and costume design whilst completing her degree in Music, Dance and Drama. Her tutor picked up on a small series of sketches which she had prepared for the costumes for a production of Hamlet and his enthusiasm gave Barbara James the courage to begin to experiment with colours, textiles and artistic ideas. Read more

Born in Fountain Valley, California, Bridges moved frequently as a small child and, by her own description, never felt there was anywhere to call home. She spent her time deep in her imagination, drawing the things that came into her mind and mastering her skills at rendering. To her delight, she found that art and drawing were not only her solace and pastime, but a way to make new friends as well, and wherever she went, she employed her art to express herself to others. Read more

Monsted was born in the Danish town of Grenaa on the 10th December 1859. He first studied painting at the Copenhagen Academy. Afterwards he travelled extensively, taking in visits to Italy, Switzerland and Paris. Read more

Nicholas Konstantinovich Roerich was born in St. Petersburg, Russia, on October 9, 1874, the first-born son of lawyer and notary, Konstantin Roerich and his wife Maria. He was raised in the comfortable environment of an upper middle-class Russian family with its advantages of contact with the writers, artists, and scientists who often came to visit the Roerichs. At an early age he showed a curiosity and talent for a variety of activities. When he was nine, a noted archeologist came to conduct explorations in the region and took young Roerich on his excavations of the local tumuli. The adventure of unveiling the mysteries of forgotten eras with his own hands sparked an interest in archeology that would last his lifetime. Through other contacts he developed interests in collecting prehistoric artifacts, coins, and minerals, and built his own arboretum for the study of plants and trees. Read more

Born in Lausanne, Theophile Steinlen studied at the local university before taking a design job at a textile mill in Mulhouse, in eastern France. Still developing his skills, he and his new wife were then encouraged by the painter François Bocion to move to the artistic community in the Montmartre Quarter of Paris. Once there, Steinlen was befriended by the painter Adolphe Willette, who introduced him the artistic crowd at the Le Chat Noir cabaret, which led to his famous commission work for poster art for the cabaret owner and entertainer, Aristide Bruant. Read more

Danny Todd was born in Coleraine, in Northern Ireland, near to the Antrim coast and to the world famous Giant's Causeway. He has established a reputation for his beautiful depictions of the Irish countryside. Read more

Chris Simpson was born in Zurich in August 1952 to a Russian/Bulgarian mother and an Australian father. The family lived in Mauritius for 24 years and, although educated in the United Kingdom, Chris Simpson still spent an average of 3 months a year on the island. Read more

Little is known about the life of artist Antonio F. de Prades. He flourished from 1844 until 1886 and was probably the brother of the painters Alfred P. and Frank de Prades. Read more

Born in Brussels, in 1946, Thierry Poncelet spent his childhood in Manche en Famenne, a small town in Belgium. At a young age, his grandmother, who was a well-known portrait painter, encouraged him to paint and draw. Read more

The photographer Bill Philip was born in 1946 and brought up in Scotland and the Lake District. From an early age he was influenced by the power of the landscape, mountains, lochs and seas that surrounded his childhood homes and these echoes can be seen in much of his work today. Read more

Born in 1884, Snaffles was one of the greatest sporting and military artists of his time. Charlie Johnson Payne was the fourth of a bootmaker's eight children and from his youth developed a passion for all things military. He tried to enlist in the army to fight in the Boer war, but was rejected on the grounds that he was too young. Eventually, he joined the Royal Garrison Artillery at the age of 18 as a gunner but in 1906 he was forced to leave because of illness. However, his time in the army was influential, as his first recorded works of semi-caricature portrait date from this time. Read more

Equestrian and portrait artist Susan Crawford was born in the Scottish district of East Lothian. Her father was a racehorse trainer and she grew up on the family farm, inheriting her parent's affinity with horses and the countryside and learning to ride when she was only a toddler. Read more

Henderson Cisz was born in Brazil in 1960 and grew up in a small village in Parana State. Cisz had talent from a very young age, but considered it only a hobby. By the time he finished school, he entered a position as a banker. Read more

John Singer Sargent (January 12, 1856 - April 14, 1925) was a painter especially known for his fine portraits. He is usually considered an American artist, although he spent most of his life in Europe. Sargent was born in Florence, Italy to USA parents. He studied in Italy and Germany, and then in Paris under Carolus Duran. Read more

Walter Elias Disney (December 5, 1901 – December 15, 1966) was a multiple Academy Award-winning American film producer, director, screenwriter, voice actor, animator, entrepreneur and philanthropist. Disney is famous for his influence in the field of entertainment during the twentieth century. As the co-founder (with his brother Roy O. Disney) of Walt Disney Productions, Disney became one of the best-known motion picture producers in the world. The corporation he co-founded, now known as The Walt Disney Company, today has annual revenues of approximately U.S. $35 billion. Read more

The Dutch artist Hans Paus (1959) is a passionate modern artist. The ancient landscape of his native soil, the region Twente, is beside the impressions of his travels, a great source of inspiration. The floral images and abstract figures are another passion. His paintings unveil a neo-impressionistic style. Read more

Paul Jackson Pollock (January 28, 1912 - August 11, 1956) was an influential American painter and a major force in the abstract expressionist movement. In October 1945 he married the artist Lee Krasner. During his lifetime, Pollock enjoyed considerable fame and notoriety. He was regarded as a mostly reclusive artist, but had a volatile personality and struggled with alcoholism all of his life. He died at the age of 44 in an alcohol-related, single-car crash. In December 1956 he was given a memorial retrospective exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York City, and a larger more comprehensive exhibition there in 1967. More recently, in 1998 and 1999, his work was honored with large-scale retrospective exhibitions at MoMA and at The Tate in London. In 2000, Pollock was the subject of an Academy Award-winning film directed by and starring Ed Harris as Pollock. Read more

Edvard Munch's "The Scream" is one of the most familiar artworks of all time. Yet viewers know it more from parodies than direct encounters with any of the five versions created by the artist. The lithographic version of "The Scream" will be among 150 paintings and works on paper in an exhibition on the artist and his contemporaries opening Saturday at the Art Institute of Chicago. Read more

Raffaelo Sanzio was the youngest of the three giants of the High Renaissance. He was born in Urbino in 1483 and received his first instruction in the techniques of painting from his father, Giovanni Santi, a minor artist. Urbino, where Raphael spent his youth, was also the seat of the warfaring but art-loving condottiere Federico 11 da Montefeltro. Read more

Alphonse Mucha was born in 1860 in Ivancice, Moravia, which is near the city of Brno in the modern Czech Republic. It was a small town, and for all intents and purposes life was closer to the 18th than the 19th century. Though Mucha is supposed to have started drawing before he was walking, his early years were spent as a choirboy and amateur musician. It wasn't until he finished high school (needing two extra years to accomplish that onerous task) that he came to realize that living people were responsible for some of the art he admired in the local churches. That epiphany made him determined to become a painter, despite his father's efforts in securing him "respectable" employment as a clerk in the local court. Read more

Edgar Degas was born on Rue de la Victoire in Paris, the son of a wealthy art-loving banker. Initially trained in law, he instead entered the Ecole des Beaux Arts in 1855 where he studied under Louis Lamothe. Degas spent a period of time in Italy studying the work of the Old Masters. His first works include many portraits, copies and historical paintings, for example 'Italian Head' (1856) and 'Young Spartans' (1860), all painted in a severely classical style. A chance meeting with Manet led Degas to encounter the Impressionist group and he soon moved away from historical scenes to concentrate on the contemporary. Read more

Pierre-Auguste Renoir was born on 25 February 1841 in Limoges. He was the sixth child of Léonard Renoir (1799-1874) and Marguerite Merlet (1807-1896). In 1844 Renoir and his family moved to Paris where Léonard Renoir earned his living as a tailor. In 1854 Renoir left school and begin his apprenticeship as a porcelain painter at the firm of Lévy frères. His precocious talent for painting would assure his career as a porcelain painter but the firm went bankrupt in 1858. After that Renoir dabbled in a number of different jobs but it seems that he may have decided to become a full-time painter around this date. Read more

Constable and Turner were the leading figures in English landscape painting of the 19th cent. Constable became famous for his landscapes of Suffolk, Hampstead, Salisbury, and Brighton. The son of a prosperous miller, he showed artistic talent while very young but did not devote himself to art until he was 23, when he went to London to study at the Royal Academy. Influenced by the 17th-century landscape painters Ruisdael and Claude Lorrain, his poetic approach to nature paralleled in spirit that of his contemporary, the poet Wordsworth. Read more

Joseph Mallord William Turner was born in Maiden Lane, off Covent Garden in London. Turner showed talent early on and by the age of 13 his father, realising his son was a potentially lucrative asset, apprenticed him to Thomas Malton, a watercolourist. After a year Turner enrolled at the Royal Academy to study painting. By 1793 with the help of his father, Turner had his own studio. His early work consisted of precise drawings of landscapes, churches and country houses, while his main income came from work as a copyist. Read more

Rembrandt HARMENSZOON VAN RIJN (b. July 15, 1606, Leiden, Neth.--d. Oct. 4, 1669, Amsterdam), Dutch painter, draftsman, and etcher of the 17th century, a giant in the history of art. His paintings are characterized by luxuriant brushwork, rich colour, and a mastery of chiaroscuro. Numerous portraits and self-portraits exhibit a profound penetration of character. His drawings constitute a vivid record of contemporary Amsterdam life. The greatest artist of the Dutch school, he was a master of light and shadow whose paintings, drawings, and etchings made him a giant in the history of art. Read more

René François Ghislain Magritte was born on November 21, 1898, in Lessines, Belgium. He studied intermittently between 1916 and 1918 at the Académie Royale des Beaux-Arts in Brussels. Magritte first exhibited at the Centre d'Art in Brussels in 1920. After completing military service in 1921, he worked briefly as a designer in a wallpaper factory. In 1923 he participated with Lyonel Feininger, El Lissitzky, László Moholy-Nagy, and the Belgian Paul Joostens in an exhibition at the Cercle Royal Artistique in Antwerp. In 1924 he collaborated with E. L. T. Mesens on the review Oesophage. Read more

Will Rafuse was born in Calgary, Alberta. After spending many years living on the Prairies he moved to Vancouver in 1986. He received a diploma in Graphic Arts and Illustration from Capilano College in North Vancouver and continued his education at Vancouver Community College, receiving a diploma in Computer Graphics and Multimedia Read more

Don Li-Leger's paintings reveal the artist’s intimate knowledge and deep sensitivity to the often hidden realms of nature. Born and raised in British Columbia, he has painted since childhood, focusing initially on birds and animals of his native province. In later years, extensive field trips to the Orient and to wildlife sanctuaries throughout North America extended his vision - and the scope of his subject matter.Recently, his work has taken a new departure, with figurative etchings and more improvisational mono-prints and paintings. Read more

Born in the Italian resort town of Livorno,Cappiello (1875 - 1942) had a natural talent for drawing and his first ambition was to be a great painter. Leonetto Cappiello is often called the father of the Modern Poster. His posters are a sequel to the works of the artists such as Villemot, Cheret and Pal. Read more

Botticelli was a late 15th-century Florentine painter, popular for his graceful Madonnas, altarpieces, and life-size mythological paintings, such as 'Venus and Mars'. He pioneered new types of portraiture in Italy, influenced by Netherlandish art. Read more

Ansel Easton Adams was born on February 20, 1902, in San Francisco, California, near the Golden Gate Bridge. His father, a successful businessman, sent his son to private, as well as public, schools; beyond such formal education, however, Adams was largely self-taught. Charles and Olive Adams gave their son, Ansel, the freedom to grow and become whatever his intellect and talents would allow him to be. At twelve, unable to stand the confinement and tedium of the classroom, he utterly disrupted his lessons with wild laughter and undisguised contempt for the inept ramblings of his teachers. Read more

Caravaggio (1573-1610). Probably the most revolutionary artist of his time, the Italian painter Caravaggio abandoned the rules that had guided a century of artists before him. They had idealized the human and religious experience. Read more

Gustav Klimt (1862-1918) was one of the most innovative and controversial artists of the early twentieth century. Born in 1862 the son of an engraver, Klimt attended the Kunstgewerbeschule (School of Arts and Crafts) in Vienna for seven years starting in 1876. In 1879 he formed with his brother Ernst and a co-student, Franz Matsch (1861-1942), a studio where they executed designs primarily of other artists--for instance, the graffiti designs of Laufberger for the Art Historical Museum and for Hans Makart (1840-1884). Read more

Mark Rothko was born Marcus Rothkowitz on September 25, 1903, in Dvinsk, Russia (now Latvia). In 1913 he left Russia and settled with the rest of his family in Portland, Oregon. Rothko attended Yale University, New Haven, on a scholarship from 1921 to 1923. That year he left Yale without receiving a degree and moved to New York. In 1925 he studied under Max Weber at the Art Students League. He participated in his first group exhibition at the Opportunity Galleries, New York, in 1928. During the early 1930s Rothko became a close friend of Milton Avery and Adolph Gottlieb. His first solo show took place at the Portland Art Museum in 1933. Read more

From his studio in New York City, Roy Lichtenstein did cartoon inspired paintings that helped launch the Pop Art movement. He was unique in that he developed a new visual language in an avant-garde style that was disruptive to viewers and yet was accessible and popular with them. He also did innovative art work that incorporated many late 20th-century movements and addressed a number of social issues. Read more

Titian (Tiziano) was the greatest painter of 16th-century Venice, and the first painter to have a mainly international clientele. He was court painter to the Holy Roman Emperor, Charles V, and reputedly on terms of friendship with him. He mastered a wide range of subject matter - devotional and mythological themes, portraits and allegories. Read more

Leonardo is one the world’s immortal thinkers, artists and philosophers. In several different fields he proved to be both innovative and several centuries ahead of his contemporaries. Born as illegitimate son of a Florentice noble and peasant woman Leonardo grew up in Vinci, Italy. In his formative years he developed a love of nature and from an early age displayed his remarkable talents and capacities. Read more

Andy Warhol was born Andrew Warhola in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, in 1928. In 1945 he entered the Carnegie Institute of Technology (now Carnegie Mellon University) where he majored in pictorial design. Upon graduation, Warhol moved to New York where he found steady work as a commercial artist. He worked as an illustrator for several magazines including Vogue, Harper's Bazaar and The New Yorker and did advertising and window displays for retail stores such as Bonwit Teller and I. Miller. Prophetically, his first assignment was for Glamour magazine for an article titled "Success is a Job in New York." Read more

Paul Klee was born in Münchenbuchsee near Bern on 18 December 1879. In 1898 he decided to move to Munich, where he studied etching and drawing under Heinrich Knirr. Read more

Pablo Picasso (1881 - 1974) was a Spanish artist whose name is almost synonymous with 20th century art. No artist was ever as famous as Picasso was in his own lifetime, or has been since. The controversies over his personality, arrogance, affairs with younger women, and unwillingness to be classified in the art world only added to his fame. Read more

The Russian painter and graphic artist Wassily Kandinsky was one of the great masters of modern art, as well as the outstanding representative of pure abstract painting (using only colors and forms) that dominated the first half of the twentieth century. Read more

is a Chinese-born painter. Born in 1955, Wu grew up in Guangzhou City, China. and he received his BFA from Guangzhou Academy of Fine Art China and his MFA from the Academy of Art University, San Francisco. Read more

Salvador Felipe Jacinto Dalí Domènech, Marquis of Pubol or Salvador Felipe Jacinto Dalí Domènech (May 11, 1904 – January 23, 1989), known popularly as Salvador Dalí, was a Spanish (Catalan) artist and one of the most important painters of the 20th century. He was a skilled draftsman, best known for the striking, bizarre, and beautiful images in his surrealist work. His painterly skills are often attributed to the influence of Renaissance masters.[1] His best known work, The Persistence of Memory, was completed in 1931. Salvador Dalí's artistic repertoire also included film, sculpture, and photography. He collaborated with Walt Disney on the Academy Award-nominated short cartoon Destino, which was released posthumously in 2003. Born in Catalonia, Spain, Dalí insisted on his "Arab lineage," claiming that his ancestors descended from the Moors who invaded Spain in 711, and attributed to these origins, "my love of everything that is gilded and excessive, my passion for luxury and my love of oriental clothes." Read more

French Born in Paris, Monet was the leading French Impressionist landscape painter. Read more

George Stubbs was classified in his lifetime as a sporting painter, and as such was looked down on by the art establishment. He is best remembered for his paintings of horses and his conversation pieces. He studied anatomy, and his pictures of horses are among the most accurate ever painted. Read more

The greatness of Peter Paul Rubens is one of life's mysteries. As famous artists go, this relentlessly grandiose painter doesn’t fit any of our notions of the romantic genius. Rubens, born in 1577 into an exiled Antwerp family, was trained as a courtier-artist in Italy, and went on to become the most prestigious painter at all the courts of Europe. He worked for the monarchies of France, Spain and England; promoted orthodox faith and the absolute right of kings and queens to rule; and nowhere are his affiliations clearer than in his paintings set into the ceiling of the Banqueting House on London's Whitehall. Read more