Adrian Bannister (Man on a Mission) says of his work, "My current work explores the theme of ‘Work and Play’ and manipulates images of business people involved in various activities. I’m interested in using a mixture of scale, context, and everyday objects to create dialogues about life cycles and the global economy." Website: www.adrianbannister.com/Artist/

Richard Bawden RWS RE (Jessy) is a painter, printmaker and designer working predominantly in lino, etching and watercolour. He studied painting, printmaking and graphic design at Chelsea, St Martin's and the Royal College of Art. His paintings are drawn from life and often depict scenes of domesticity: his house, sofas, chairs, windows, cats, his garden and its birds. He is attracted by atmosphere, oddity, pattern and the austere. Focussing on these, he draws the viewer into his delightful universe. He has work in Royal, public and private collections, and has taught drawing and printmaking at several London and provincial art schools. Website: www.birchamgallery.co.uk/catalogue/artist/Richard:Bawden

Jeremy Blighton RE (The Ebbing Tide at Bosham) has vast experience working as a Master Printer with many contemporary artists, also on historical editions. His etchings are dynamic compositions of figures and landscapes, many of which are historical sites. He has work in public and private collections in Britain and abroad. He is also a regular exhibitor at the Royal Academy and Mall Galleries in London. Website: www.graymca.co.uk/artists.asp?type=Contemporary&artist=84

Sarah Bowman (St Michael's Mount, or Sweet Williams and Blue Cup) studied at Falmouth Art College. Her landscapes are derived from memory, they are an amalgamation of places she has visited, Cornwall, Devon, the Scilly Isles, Andalucia. She thrives on exploring new locations to paint, searching for still-life and natural objects to depict. In 2005 she won the Mary Fedden Award, Royal West of England Academy. She has exhibited at the Royal Acadamey Summer Exhibition and has had many solo shows. Website: www.whitespaceart.com/Paintings/Sarah_Bowman

Perienne Christian (Snowdonia Dreaming) lives and works in London. She studied at Bath Spa University, The Leipzig Academy and completed an MA Diploma at the Prince's Drawing School in 2007. From 2008-2011, she sat for the final completed painting by by Lucian Freud, before his death in 2011, an experience and resulting friendship that had a profound effect on her life and work. She has exhibited widely, was shortlisted for the Jerwood Drawing prize in 2010 and has undertaken artist residencies at Kensington Palace, and Chat's Palace art Centre. Website: www.periennechristian.co.uk

Anthea Craigmyle (Early Morning, West Highlands) trained at the Chelsea School of Art under Julian Trevelyan and Ceri Richards. Recently, she returned to Chiswick Mall where she paints in a studio not far from her childhood home. She frequently visits and paints the West Highlands. She also seeks inspiration from the Thames, animals, boats, London gardens, as well as interior spaces and domestic activities. She has recently illustrated and plublished "A Vicarage in the Blitz", based on her mother's letters about life in Chiswick during WW2. Website: www.acraigmyle.co.uk

Penny Dann (Lifecycles) trained at Amersham College and Brighton Polytechnic before starting to illustrate children's books, including The Secret Fairy series. She lives and works in Brighton. She created this poster for the Environment Trust's Lifecycle event with Sir David Attenborough. Website Website: www.pennydann.co.uk

Anthony Dyson PhD RE (After the Carnival) trained as an artist at Blackburn School of Art and has a Doctorate in History of Art from the Courtauld Institute of Art. He has written many books and articles on art education and printmaking. His prints were first exhibited at the Royal Academy when he was still a student and he has since exhibited frequently there and widely elsewhere in Britain and France. His work is in the collections of the Science Museum, London, the Guildhall Library, London, the University of London Institute of Education, the University of London Birkbeck College, the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge and the Sagene Laererskole, Oslo. He has been Vice-President of the Royal Society of Painter-Printmakers, London. His latest book is "Printmakers' Secrets" published in 2009 by A&C Black Ltd. Website: www.anthonydyson.co.uk

Mary Fedden OBE RA RWA (1915 - 2012) (Still Life) was born in 1915. She 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. Website www.portlandgallery.com/artist/Mary_Fedden/bio

Valerie Ganz (Dawn Departure) was born in Swansea overlooking the dramatic sweep of Swansea Bay with the background of heavy industry. She attended Swansea College of Art and studied painting, sculpture and stained glass. In 1985 she took a house and studio at Six Bells, Abertillery. For a year she worked at the Six Bells Colliery, alongside the miners both above ground and at the coalface. In the evening she made studies of the miners and their families at choir practice, in the snooker halls and in the chapel. This work formed the basis of many exhibitions, in particular the mining exhibition at the Glynn Vivian Gallery, Swansea in 1986, “Mining in Art” with Josef Herman, Jack Crabtree and Nicholas Evans. Following her time at Six Bells a commission from British Coal led to a year working at three open cast sites culminating in a large exhibition. Many visits to South America where she painted and quite recently worked with the oil industry where she travelled out into the desert from Neuquen, Patagonia, Argentina to paint oil rigs and their workers. Her curiosity with “Other Lives” has taken her to London for a year to work with the Dancers at the Central School of Ballet, New Orleans to pursue her love of jazz and to paint the musicians, Swansea Prison to study the lives of offenders and over the last two years to work with Classical Musicians. Website: www.valerieganz.co.uk/

Alan Halliday (At the Lowry) was born in 1952. He trained at The Courtauld Institute of Art, London University and at St. John’s College, Oxford University where he was awarded a DPhil in the history of art. He has been a successful professional artist for more than thirty years, working as a painter in several different media, particularly oil on canvas and gouache on paper and is renowned as a deft and daring draughtsman, working fluently in pen and ink, sepia and sanguine. His paintings are in the collections of several museums including the Victoria & Albert Museum; the Theatre Museum, London; the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington; and the Museum of London: and his work has been acquired by collectors across the world. One of the best interpreters of the theatre since Sickert, Halliday has produced an extensive body of work which covers all the major ballet companies including the Bolshoi, the Mariinsky and the Royal Ballet as well as other major national and international Opera and Theatre companies. In 2007 he was officially appointed as English National Ballet’s ‘Resident Artist’. Website: www.camburnfineart.com/index.cfm?page=Collection&cat=4087&artist=Alan-Halliday

Keith Johnson (Twickenham Riverside) lives in Twickenham. He has done many photographs of local scenes.

Sarah Kensington (Dans le foret Morzine) Except for a brief period spent in the French Alps, Sarah Kensington has lived near the river around Richmond ever since leaving Harrow School of Art where she trained as an illustrator. Her career has spanned 40 years working for design groups, editorials and most of the major publishers. Her work has been widely reproduced in educational and children’s books. Whilst in the Alps she made a series of drawings of local buildings and farms. Drawing in charcoal is an attempt to avoid the “chocolate box” image which seems inevitable when working in such a beautiful environment. In addition to working on private commissions she is currently teaching painting and drawing at Kingston Adult College and has a series of classes 'Just Drawing' at St John’s community hall, Isleworth.

Liz Knutt (Strawberry Hill) studied at Edinburgh College of Art and St Martins. She 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. Liz's painting of the National Physical Laboratory was one of the highlights of the 2008 art auction. Her reputation as an artist meant that she was granted unrestricted access to Hampton Court Palace to produce a series of paintings. Website: www.lizknutt.co.uk

Tony McSweeney (Flood Line, 1928, Richmond Riverside) is a graduate of The Royal College of Art. He lives in Richmond and works as a freelance illustrator, lecturer and photographer. He illustrated the Uxbridge English Dictionary and has had drawings published in many magazines, including Country Life, the Radio Times, the Observer and the Sunday Times. He designed the bronze plaque to mark 50 years of the Richmond Society. To see more of his work, look for "Tony McSweeney artist" on Google or email him at This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

Chris Orr MBE RA (Topless in Battersea) studied at the Royal College of Art. He was elected a Royal Academician in 1995 and was Professor of Printmaking at the Royal College of Art 1998-2008. He was awarded an MBE and made Professor Emeritus in 2008. He shows annually at the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition and the London Original Print Fair. His work is in public collections including The Arts Council of England, The British Council, The British Museum, The Government Art Collection, The Palace of Westminster Collection, The Ruskin Library at Lancaster University, The Queens Collection, National Portrait Gallery, Royal Academy of Arts, Science Museum, Tate Britain, and Victorian and Albert Museum. Website: www.chrisorr-ra.com

Jenny Pearce (Flood line) trained as an architect in the olden days with pencils, before computers were invented, but has also been drawing prolifically and often on entirely inappropriate surfaces since the age of about four and three-quarters. Neither qualification was very much use during her period as Chair of the Environment Trust. However, she also helps run the Trust's Art Picnics and sometimes gets the chance to join in. After a career in building conservation, she still enjoys the atmosphere and random collections of objects found in empty and abandoned buildings.

Ian Shillaker (Cattle Trough, Kingston Lane) studied graphics at Croydon College of Art and has worked as a designer for 35 years. He finds painting is a more spontaneous and natural alternative to designing on a computer screen. He has attended classes in painting figures and portraits in oils, also landscapes in watercolour and acrylic. A regular member of the Trust's art picnics, he says,"I find enjoyment and moral support in going with others. In particular I like the special access we get as a group (of artists), to some very special places, which the Environment Trust are able to arrange for us."

Anne Swankie (High Street Kensington Station) 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, and the Pastel Society Annual Exhibition. Her painting of the cafe at Petersham Nurseries was a highlight of the art auction in 2009. Website: www.swankie.co.uk

David Wentworth (Shed) Founder member of the Fountain Gallery, David Wentworth was concerned with people and situations - human behaviour focusing on the concept of personal space and body language. David graduated from the Surrey Institute of Art and Design Farnham in 2001 with a BA(Hons) Fine Art degree and continued his studies in 2003 with a MA degree in Fine Art Drawing from Wimbledon School of Art. In 2007 he completed his Stage Three Level 5 Certificate in Further Education Teaching from the City and Guilds Institute. David's work is represented by several Art Galleries promoting his work and he was a Daler Rowney Prize winner in the Drawing Open Exhibition in 2003 at the Bracknell Gallery and in 2010 won the People's prize at the Surrey Open Art Competition held at the Lightbox Museum and art Gallery in Woking. After a diagnosis of oesophageal cancer, David Wentworth died in October 2012. For enquiries concerning David's work, please contact his sister Sandra at This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it . Website: www.davidwentworth.co.uk

Anne Woodham ("Can we have a conversation?") began her career as a journalist. She has a BA Hons Fine Art from Buckinghamshire New University and a BA in English and Anthropology. She is a figurative artist interested in exploring psychological narratives revealed in body language, gestures and facial expressions. As well as painting in oils, she also enjoys making pen, gouache and watercolour drawings that take a more light-hearted approach to people and communication. When not drawing and painting, she is a Guide at Tate Britain and Tate Modern. Website: www.annewoodham.co.uk

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