Clive Armitage trained at Harrogate School of Art and Nottingham and Ealing Schools of Design. He works as an illustrator in advertising, with campaigns for many household-name brands such as Brooke Bond, Carlsberg, Rolls Royce and Nokia. He has exhibited at the Mall Galleries, with the Royal Institute of Watercolour Painters, and with many local galleries.
Richard Bawden lives and works, like his father Edward Bawden before him, in East Anglia. Some of his finest watercolours vividly and delicately catch the sea-light of the Sussex coastal towns such as Aldeburgh and Southwold.
Bill Belcher studied at Worthing School of Art after war service and then at the Royal College of Art. His work has appeared in a wide range of national newspapers and magazines, including The Observer, Radio Times, The Oldie and Good Housekeeping, and is regularly selected for the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition.
David Birtwhistle qualified as an architect, then studied etching at Falmouth School of Art under Bryan Ingham, and was apprenticed to the artist Graham Clark as a printmaker in the 1960s. He has exhibited nationally and exhibits regularly at the Royal Exchange and Mall Galleries. He is a member of the Royal Institute of Painters in Watercolour and his work is included in many public and private collections in Europe and North America.
Maurice Broughton lives in Richmond. He practised as an architect in London until 1994, when he retired from running his own firm, Maurice Broughton Associates, to become a full-time artist.
Nicky Browne lives in Hampton and teaches printmaking at Richmond Adult College and is an active member of Richmond Printmakers. She is working towards a 2009 exhibition of monkey puzzle trees, in which those of Richmond will figure prominently.
Jo Buonaguidi lives in Esher and worked initially as a professional dancer and then with the fashion designer Issey Miyake for many years before her art training from 1994 at Central St Martins. She specializes in figurative life studies and has exhibited in London and Italy since 1997.
Michael Carlo has lived and worked in Suffolk for more than 30 years. He worked in Edward Bawden’s studio at Great Bardfield and then attended the Royal College of Art. He became known first for his screenprints but later worked with woodcuts and produced a series of lithographs for Curwen Studio in 2006. He has exhibited widely and has work in many public collections, including the Tate.
Joy Cuff lives in Teddington. She works part time as a graphic designer for Richmond Council and has exhibited her paintings and worked to commission for many years. Her watercolours depict the Thames and the people who use it, and make use of her observational and documentary drawing skills.
Alice Dass studied art at Goldsmith’s College and was a former resident at Kew Studios. She now paints and exhibits with a group called Enable Artists who all have multiple sclerosis. She held a solo exhibition ‘Holding On and Letting Go’ at the Waterman’s Centre in 2005 on the theme of hands.
Martin Davison is an artist, photographer and jazz musician. After obtaining a degree in physics, he studied drawing at the Ruskin School in Oxford and St Martins and then worked as a graphic designer in advertising and PR. In the early 1990s, he decided to take up drawing and painting full time and has exhibited with the Royal Institute of Oil Painters and the Pastel Society.
Bernard Dunstan was born in Teddington in 1920 and studied at the Slade. He taught over many years at Camberwell, Ravensbourne and City & Guilds Art Schools. He has exhibited regularly with major London galleries and the New English Art Club, has written several books on painting and has been a Royal Academician since 1968.
Colleen Farr trained at the Royal College of Art in textile design. She has been painting full time for the past 15 years and has been a regular exhibitor at the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition. She paints landscapes and still life mainly in watercolour and tempera.
Mary Fedden studied at the Slade School and became the first woman tutor in the Painting School at the Royal College of Art. She has held annual solo shows in the UK since 1950, including at the Redfern Gallery, the New Grafton and the Arnolfini, Bristol. She has carried out many mural commissions, with locations including the Festival of Britain in 1951 and Charing Cross Hospital in 1980.
Jacqueline Hall studied at Camberwell College of Art and now combines landscape painting – both representational and abstract – with a management career. She works at Kew Studios.
Jeremy Hullah is a photographer whose work has been sold at the Affordable Art Fair Battersea and at the Chelsea Art Fair, as well as to numerous private buyers.
Sally Hunkin lives in Kew. She trained at Richmond Adult College and set up her own studio to concentrate on etching, selling through many galleries in London and nationally. She now works with monoprint, watercolour and oils as well.
John Iddon is an art historian and led the Heritage Interpretation course at St Mary’s College, Strawberry Hill, before becoming a dealer in fine art. He continues to lecture in art history and works as a guide at the Tate.
David Imms trained at the Central School; his subjects are taken from literary and ancient landscapes such as Hardy’s Dorset and the prehistoric earthworks and stones of Wiltshire. His work is in over 20 corporate and public galleries including the V&A.
Sheila Julian was an actor before taking up painting full time. For several years she has run Kew Studios artists’ cooperative, organizing regular and popular exhibitions of local artists’ work.
Angela Kidner is an interior architect and former lecturer with a practice in Richmond. She was the previous chair of the Environment Trust and is now its Projects Manager. She is involved in many river-related volunteering activities and projects and lives across the river from the Richmond Bridge Boathouse, which she photographed for the Trust’s annual report this year.
Angela Kilenyi is a founder member of the Fountain Gallery Artists’ Association, where she has exhibited extensively since its inception. She works primarily in inks and is known for her loose, spontaneous figure drawing but in recent years has done an increasing amount of landscape painting, especially of Mallorca.
Liz Knutt paints views and events in Richmond upon Thames and her paintings have been purchased by Richmond Theatre and the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. The latter purchased her picture of a Jools Holland concert for its permanent collection and used the image to market their 2002 festival.
Niamh MacGowan trained as a graphic designer at the National College of Art & Design in Dublin. After initially working as a designer, she changed to printmaking, working for many years at Kew Studios. Now based at Brittas Bay, County Wicklow, she visits Richmond regularly and is still inspired by its vistas and architecture.
Sasa Marinkov works mainly in woodcut and has had great success in exhibiting and selling regularly at the Royal Academy Summer Exhibitions.
Elizabeth Montgomery (c.1900–1937) spent a long period of her life in India with her soldier husband, Bernard Law Montgomery, who later became a Field Marshal in World War II. They returned to England in 1937, where she died the same year.
Chris Orr studied at Ravensbourne College of Art, Hornsey College of Art and the Royal College of Art. He has been Professor of Printmaking at the RCA since 1998 and a Fellow since 1985. He is a Royal Academician and has had many solo shows in the UK. His work is in public collections, including the Arts Council, Royal Academy, V&A, British Museum, Science Museum and Tate Gallery.
Jenny Pearce trained as an architect and has an interest in documentary drawing involving people and activity. She has an MA in Drawing as Process from Kingston University. In 1991 she recorded over several months the building of the Thames Wherry by Mark Edwards and other members of the Thames Wherry Trust.
Neil Pittaway trained in printmaking at Bradford University and the Royal Academy Schools and is a member of the Royal Society of Painter-Printmakers and the Royal Watercolour Society. He has had solo exhibitions in London and Yorkshire and has won many awards, including the British Institution prizes for drawing and printmaking at the Royal Academy. His work is in many public collections.
Cynthia Pow is a self-trained artist working chiefly in charcoal and pastel. Her early career was as a botanical illustrator. Recently her horticultural studies have been shown at the Society of Botanical Artists at Westminster Central Hall. She exhibits with Lincoln Joyce Fine Art in Great Bookham.
Christopher Read trained as an architect at University College London and later became senior lecturer in charge of three-dimensional design at what is now Kingston University. He became interested in printing with his wife Pat 15 years ago. They have lived in the borough since the 1950s.
Alexandra Robb is an artist, illustrator and writer. She trained at Chelsea and specializes in depicting the natural world. She has written and illustrated two children&s books and currently manages the Crane Park Nature Reserve in Twickenham for the London Wildlife Trust. She has two RHS medals for botanical painting.
Lyn Rohde was born in Dublin and was initially educated in France. She gained a BA in Fine Art (Painting) at Wimbledon School of Art in 1986. She has exhibited widely in London, including at the Chelsea Art Fair and the Art on Paper Fair at the Royal College.
Jill Storey lives in Twickenham and trained in Fine Art at Gloucestershire College of Art & Design and Goldsmiths. She works mainly in watercolour and pastel and, after many years of teaching in adult education, is now concentrating on her own work and subjects wider afield in Europe. She is the main tutor for the Trust’s programme of Art Picnics.
Anne Swankie lives in Richmond. She trained at Richmond School of Art and has taken part in many group shows, both locally and in London, including exhibitions by the Society of Women Artists and Society of Landscape Painters.
Norman Twyman studied at Hammersmith School of Building and Architecture and graduated from Hammersmith School of Art in 1950. In 1951 he was involved in the Festival of Britain exhibition. He had solo shows and participated in group shows at Marble Hill and Hampton Hill galleries. He died in November 2003.
Howard Vie originally trained as an architect. He now works to commission as an illustrator, specialising in architectural subjects. He has illustrated many conservation area studies for the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames.
Penny Wade spent her childhood in India, Burma and Exmoor and was home-educated, allowing her to spend most of her time drawing and painting. She worked as a weaver in Finland and Denmark and has studied art at Richmond Adult College.
Alan White trained at Ealing College of Art and had a career in advertising as a graphic designer running his own company, before turning to painting. He has exhibited his figure studies in watercolour and pastel at many galleries in London.
Jim Woodman divides his time between Teddington and the Isle of Skye, where he paints vivid landscapes of the island. His work has been sold at several of the major London art fairs as well as at local galleries.
Roy Wright studied illustration at Hull College of Art and was Group Graphics Editor of the Mirror Group of Newspapers. Since 1993 he has worked independently from his Richmond studio. He has been a prizewinner in the Sunday Times Watercolour Competition and the RA Summer Exhibition.