Gordon Bryce was born in Edinburgh and studied at the City's College of Art, 1960 - 65 and won several awards including the Scottish Arts Council Award. From 1968 he has been a lecturer in printmaking at Gray's School of Art, Aberdeen. He has had many solo shows at prestigious galleries in the USA and Britain. Examples of his work are in many important public collections including the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art and the Scottish Arts Council.

Melissa studied Fine Art at Cleveland College of Art and John Moores University, Liverpool where shw gained an Honours Degree in the subject. Now living in Staithes she has found that her paintings featuring the jumbled roofs of the village are an ideal subject for her colourist approach to art.

William Gaunt was born in Leeds and studied at Lancaster School of Art after attending school in Morcambe. He often painted race horses in and around Middleham. Despite or, perhaps, because of, being involved in the D-Day landings as an officer in the Royal Engineers, he enjoyed painting happy summer beach scenes. He was a member of the Lancaster Art Group.
Exhibited: RWS, RI, Lancaster and in the USA.

Margaret Geeds was born in Cheam and studied at Westminster School of Art. She was elected a member of the Artists' International Association, of the National Society of Painters, Sculptors, Gravers/Printmakers and of the Women's International Art Club. She exhibited with the London Group, New English Art Club, the Redfearn Gallery and the Royal Academy. She moved from figuarative to abstract work.

Arthur Kitching was born in Sheffield and began painting at the age of eighteen. He studied at the City's School of Art for just a year and then spent the next twenty years painting for six months and then working at any job he could find for six months. In 1950 he started work with Essex County Council as an artist and exhibition arranger and compiled two books of drawings. He returned to Yorkshire to become the first curator of Ilkley Museum and Art Gallery, an art teacher and, after he retired, became Exhibitions Officer for Bradford Metropolitan Council. He exhibited regularly in Yorkshire in his unmistakable, vibrant style.

Leslie Marr was born in Durham City and started painting in Palestine during WW2. After the war he was taught by David Bomberg at the Borough Polytechnic. He became a member and Secretary of the Borough Group, created by Bomberg in 1949, and took part in many of its exhibitions. He married Bomberg's step-daughter, Dinora Mendelson. He has exhibited extensively, including at the R.A., and now lives on the Isle of Arran. He was a Formula 1 racing driver in the mid 1950s. He inherited a baronetcy in the 1930s bur does not use his title.

Richard Marshall gained his B.A. in Fine Art at Sunderland Art college in 1966 followed by a two year postgraduate course at the Slade School of Art. He has exhibited at the Royal Academy, the Royal Institute, Cambridge University, University College London, provincially and in Australia. We have handled his work for many years and are delighted with his new range of beach scenes which he is painting exclusively for ourselves. Favourite subjects include Scarborough, Whitby, Staithes, Robin Hoods Bay, Runswick and Bamburgh often with children playing and with donkeys.
Richard died in September 2006 and is missed very much. CLICK ON his name above to see these, the last of his pictures that are available.

Scottish artist Ann Oram studied at Edinburgh College of Art 1976 - 82 and then taught there for two years before spending a further two years in Spain. She returned to teach part time in Edinburgh in 1991 having spent some time as a visiting lecturer at Newcastle Polytechnic. She has won numerous awards, including the May Marshall Brown Award at the RSW. An exceptionally good colourist, she prefers to work in watercolour. Her work is in many public and corporate collections.

After completing his National Service, Peter Rogers studied at St. Martin’s School of Art in London. He was elected a Member of the Royal Society of British Artists in 1957. His work was handled by London dealers, Arthur Tooth and Sons

He met his second wife, Carol Hurd while living in Spain in 1962. She was a member of the famous American family of artists, the Wyeths and the daughter of Henriette Wyeth and Peter Hurd. Her brother, Andrew, is the best known of the family, but Henriette is recognised as one of the best American women artists. The work of them all is featured in the Wyeth Hurd Gallery in Santa Fé, New Mexico.

Roger’s work is influenced by mysticism which sprang from a vision he experienced at a Promenade concert in 1960 and which he interpreted as relating to the Ascension. I find that much of his work has overtones of Picasso’s Blue
Period intermingled with a sense of mysticism.

Susan Ryder studied at the Byam Shaw School of Art in London. She is best known for her portraits and interior scenes. She was commissioned to paint Princess Diana in her wedding dress and also the Queen for the Centenary of the RAC. She had her first picture exhibited at the Royal Academy at the age of eighteen.

Former winner of the Sunday Times/Singer and Freidlander watercolour prize, Len Tabner trained in Middlesbrough, Bath and Reading. He generally paints very freely in watercolour on a large scale and is particularly well known for his depiction of seas and of industrial scenes. He lives at Boulby, close to Staithes.

Christopher Wood was born in Leeds and studied graphic design at the City's College of Art and then at Chelsea College of Art. He is fascinated by both the visual impact and the geology of the Yorkshire landscape which influence his paintings. He exhibits regularly in London and the provinces and has work in the collections of Leeds, Oldham and Preston Art Galleries and the Mercer Gallery, Harrogate and of private and corporate collections. This is one of three similar.