ABOUT ROBBIE Robbie Wraith left school at 16, consciously avoiding art schools and ateliers, to study with Pietro Annigoni in Italy and London during most of the 1970s. He has had forty solo exhibitions in Britain, Europe, America, and China. His work is in the private collections of HM Queen Elizabeth 11 as well as…
ABOUT VALERIY Valeriy Gridnev was born in Russia (the Urals) in 1956. 1976-1980 – graduated from Sverdlovsk Art College. 1983-1990 – studied at the St Petersburg Academy of Arts 1990 – Gridnev’s graduation project, an oil painting “The Early Years” won a prestigious prize: The Gold Medal of the USSR Academy of Art. 1990-1994 -…
ABOUT RICHARD Richard Foster was born in 1945 and brought up in Norfolk. He was educated at Harrow School, Studio Simi and the British Institute in Florence, Trinity College Oxford and the City and Guilds of London Art School; not forgetting the influence of his friends and contemporaries! He has been a Member of the…
ABOUT SAIED DAI Saied Dai is Persian by birth, born in Tehran in 1958 and came to England at the age of six. He began his seven years of art training at Bournemouth and Poole College of Art and Design and shortly after was awarded a place at the Royal Academy of Arts where he…
