Nancy Delouis , b. 1941

Nancy Delouis cites Matisse (alongside Gauguin, Bonnard and Vuillard) as a major hero and ongoing influence. She hails...

Michael Forster , 1907-2002

Michael Forster was born in Calcutta and spent much of his childhood in the Northern Indian city of Meerut. Situated in...

Alan Cotton

Alan was brought up in Redditch, Worcestershire, where he attended the local Grammar and Art Schools, before moving on...

Jane Corsellis NEAC RWS RCA, b. 1940

From prize-winning student at the Byam Shaw School of Art to mainstay of the New English Art Club, Corsellis is well...

Rose Hilton , b. 1931

Rose Hilton, née Phipps, was born at Leigh, near Tonbridge in Kent. She was the middle of seven children and her...

Dominic Welch , b.1970

Though born in Buckinghamshire, Dominic Welch later settled in Devon, after serving a formative apprenticeship with the...

David Tress , b. 1955

David Tress was born in London in 1955 and grew up there, showing an early interest in painting, drawing and natural...

Robbie Wraith

Robbie Wraith's first exhibition with Messum's will be on show from 9th to 26th May. Robbie Wraith left school at 16,...

Charlotte Sorapure NEAC, b.1968

Charlotte Sorapure’s first show at Messums was in 2012 and contained three dozen or so works, typically understated...

Peter Kuhfeld NEAC RP, b.1952

Born in Cheltenham, Peter Kuhfeld studied art at Leicester Polytechnic and ,after a brief period teaching at Rugby...

Anthony Gilbert , 1916-1995

Anthony Gilbert was one of the last great designers and illustrators of the golden age of British advertising. He...

Antony Williams NEAC RP PS, b. 1964

Antony Williams trained at Farnham College of Art and Portsmouth University. He works almost exclusively in egg tempera...

Peter Brown ROI PS NEAC, b.1967

Peter Brown first went to Bath in 1986 to study on an art foundation course for one year. He went on to graduate from...

Ramon Moscardó , b. 1953

Ramon Moscardó has been exhibiting with Sala Parés for the last thirty-five years and his exhibitions both at home...

Percy Kelly , 1918-1993

Born in Workington, Cumbria, Percy Kelly grew up around the villages and fells of the Lake District. He came from a...

Saied Dai RP NEAC, b.1958

Trained at the Royal Academy of Arts in London, Saied is a figurative artist living and working in Bath. He is Persian...

Lucy Elizabeth Kemp-Welch RI ROI RBA , 1869-1958

The outstanding horse painter of her generation, Lucy Kemp-Welch began her training in 1891 at Herkomer’s famous...

Guy Taplin , b. 1939

Born in the East End of London on the eve of World War Two, and evacuated to Herefordshire before returning to roam the...

Simon Carter , b. 1961

Simon Carter lives in Essex, where he was also born and raised. Based on the coast, his explorative art seems balanced...

James Dodds , b. 1957

James Dodds is an artist able to paint shipping from the inside out. Like a nautical-anatomist, he picks apart the...

Josep Moscardó , b. 1953

Josep Moscardó’s paintings radiate optimism, reworking images of daily life into something fresh and surprising....

Brian Horton , b. 1933

Brian Horton’s landscapes are not so much windows on the world as mirrors of human emotion. Like the man, they have a...

Jeremy Annear , b.1949

Jeremy Annear is an abstract painter who was born in Devon, and has since moved westwards into Cornwall, where he lives...

Eardley Knollys , 1902-1991

An exceptionally talented and charismatic man, Eardley Knollys tried his hand at many things - even directing silent...

Bridget McCrum , b.1934

Bridget McCrum’s work is a potent fusion of the ancient with the modern. She works primarily in stone, from which...

Jake Attree , b.1950

Jake Attree is a figurative artist in the sense that everything he paints is based on something he has observed and...

Zsuzsi Roboz FRSA PS, 1929 - 2012

Among the most innovative of Messum’s artists, Roboz’s work ranges from sensual drawings to oils which hint at the...

Daphne Todd OBE PPRP NEAC, b. 1947

Although Daphne Todd is best known for her portraits, having become the first woman President of the Royal Society of...

David Parfitt ARCA NEAC, b.1943

DAVID PARFITT was born in 1943 at Pontypool, Monmouthshire and grew up in Blaenavon, in those days a mining town at...

Wilfrid Gabriel de Glehn RA NEAC, 1870-1951

A painter of landscapes, figure subjects and portraits, de Glehn was one of England’s leading Impressionists,...

Lionel Bulmer NEAC, 1919-1992

Born in 1919, Lionel Bulmer was the third and youngest child of an architect. From the start he was taught to look. At...

Margaret Green NEAC, 1925-2003

Hailing from Hartlepool, County Durham, Margaret Green determined on life as an artist after a youthful encounter with...

Harold Harvey , 1874-1941

Born in Penzance, Harold Harvey was one of the few of the Newlyn School of painters who was actually local to the area....