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PHILP MARSDEN is the author of a number of award-winning books, including The Bronski House, The Crossing Place, The Levelling Sea and Rising Ground. His work has been translated into fifteen languages…

David Gentleman is an English artist and designer. His wood engraved platform-length mural at Charing Cross underground station is well-known to Londoners. His most recent books are In The Country (2014) and…

BERT HARDY (1913 – 1955) bought his first camera for 50p from a pawn shop and went on to become chief photographer at Picture Post. Born in London, he left school at…

Jonny Hannah enjoys nothing better than going to his studio to illustrate, paint and savour the odd Tunnocks Caramel Wafer with a fresh cup of coffee. His work has been much in…

FAY GODWIN (1931 - 2005) is known for her landscape photographs of the British countryside and coast. She also produced an extensive series of portraits of literary figures including Philip Larkin, Kingsley…

L.S. LOWRY (1887 – 1976) studied art while working as a clerk in Manchester. He became a rent collector and spent much time walking the poorest city streets, where his unique vision…

ANDREW MCNEILLIE’s biography of his father Ian Niall: Part of his Life was published in 2007. He is founder and editor of the magazine Archipelago and his several books include An Aran Keening…

BARBARA GREG (1900 – 1983) was born in Styal, Cheshire, and studied at the Slade School in London. Her earliest jobs were designing endpapers and piano rolls produced by the Aeolian Company.…

LUKE JENNINGS  is the dance critic for The Observer and has written extensively about dance and contemporary culture for the New Yorker and in the UK press. He is also an award-winning documentary…

JAMES LYNCH paints in the traditional Renaissance medium of egg tempera, which he makes from raw pigments and egg yolk. Since his first one-man exhibition in the 1980s, he has gone on…

BRIAN JACKMAN is a freelance journalist and author with a lifelong passion for travel and wildlife. For twenty years he worked for The Sunday Times, during which time he was voted Travel…

NICHOLAS HELY HUTCHINSON was born in 1955, Nicholas Hely Hutchinson studied at St. Martins School of Art and Bristol Polytechnic (Fine Art). Since his first one-man exhibition in 1984 Nicholas has exhibited consistently in…