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...

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...

Charlotte Sorapure NEAC, b.1968

Charlotte Sorapure trained at the Cheltenham and Gloucester College of Art and at the Royal Academy Schools, where she...

Anthony Gilbert , 1916-1995

Anthony Gilbert trained at Goldsmith’s College in London and spent the majority of his career in advertising. In 1943...

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...

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,...

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...

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...

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...

Zsuzsi Roboz FRSA PS

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

Alan Cotton

Born in Redditch, Worcestershire, Alan Cotton trained at the Birmingham College of Art before becoming a Research...

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...

David Tress , b. 1955

Messum's will be holding a Retrospective exhibition of work by David Tress in May 2012. David Tress was born in...

Peter Kuhfeld NEAC RP, b.1952

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

Dominic Welch , b.1970

Born in Taplow, Buckinghamshire, Dominic Welch has moved from a county of wood to a region of stone, settling at...

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...

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....