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Humphrey Ocean RA | Artist & Royal Academician

Humphrey Ocean is a painter. His work is represented in the British Council, The Whitworth, National Portrait Gallery, Government Art Collection, Victoria and Albert Museum and the British Museum. He was elected a Royal Academician in 2004.

Photograph by Anne Purkiss

Charles Williams PRWS | Artist and President of the Royal Watercolour Society

Charles Williams  is a painter and writer. He exhibits his work in London, Europe and the USA, and has published ‘Basic Drawing: How To Draw What You See’ in September 2011 and the follow-up, ‘Basic Watercolour’ in July 2014 (Robert Hale, London). Mainly a painter, he works in oil, watercolour, bronze, ceramics and graphic mediums, and his interests are in the figurative, narrative tradition, although the work is informed by a fascination with formal elements of 2D and 3D design. 

Suzy Fasht RWS | Artist

Suzy Fasht was born in London and trained at Wimbledon School of Art and the Royal Academy Schools graduating in 1998.  She has lived in South Devon for many years, currently living near Dartmoor. Suzy's paintings stem from the natural world and her rural location: her garden, nearby woods, moor and coastal path.  Beginning from observation, the starting point is a springboard for exploring more formal aspects of painting: colour, composition and pattern. Paintings are often allowed to drift into a more imagined approach. Aware of the ever changing and short lived nature of her subject matter, the pictures are made with a deeply felt wistfullness for the inability to make still, the passing of time.  This is even more pronounced now, with the unpredictable climate and the visible effects in rural areas on farming, hedgerows and wildlife.

Barbara Nicholls RWS | Artist

Barbara Nicholls lives and works from studios in London and Bollington, The Peak District. Nicholls studied at Goldsmiths College for a BA Fine Art (1982-86), University of East London MFA (1996-98) and Doctorate in Fine Art (2000-06). Barbara’s watercolour works emerge by manipulating the behaviour of pigment in ever-increasing quantities of water. Their production remains consistent with her earlier work where she has stitched, drawn, cut, and built. She focuses on archaeological, architectural, geological and other sites which are of significance to her- currently The Peak District. She has had her work widely exhibited in public museums, commercial galleries and artist led spaces. 

Photograph by Livia Lazar