ABOUT ROBBIE Robbie Wraith left school at 16, and went to study painting in Florence at the invitation of Pietro Annigoni. He has had over thirty exhibitions in Britain, Europe, America, and China. He has work in the private collection of HM The Queen as well as more than 40 pictures in the private collection…
ABOUT VALERIY Valeriy Gridnev was born in Russia in 1956. He studied at the Art College in Sverdlovsk 1976 – 1980, and then at the Ural Repin St.Peterburg State Academy Institute of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture 1983-1990. For his graduation project “The Early Years” he won the USSR Academy of Arts’ Gold Medal. He then…
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…
ABOUT TOM Tom Coates was born in Birmingham in 1941. He studied at the Bournville College of Art 1956 – 59 and Birmingham College of Art 1959 – 61. In 1961, he won a scholarship to the Royal Academy Schools. Here, he worked under Keeper Sir Henry Rushbury and Professor Peter Greenham, winning many prizes…
