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Top: Regional: Europe: United_Kingdom: Arts_and_Entertainment: Visual_Arts: Artists
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This category contains UK based artists' web sites. The emphasis of the category is on the artist, style and medium used and most sites include a gallery exhibiting the artist’s work.
Groups of UK based artists working or exhibiting together
Stanley Donwood is a pseudonym of Dan Rickwood, an artist and writer best known for his album art and web site work for the band Radiohead. He is the author of the short pieces "Chip Shop" and "New Job" found in Radiohead's "Airbag/How Am I Driving?" EP. In spite of having won one Grammy award (2001, Best Recording Package, for the limited edition of Amnesiac with Thom Yorke) and having written one novel, Catacombs of Terror, he manages to remain very, very mysterious.
Joan Kathleen Harding Eardley, 1921-1963.Born in Sussex. Studied at Goldsmith's and Glasgow School of Art 1940-3. 1947 at Hospitalfield under James Cowie. Post-Diploma at Glasgow in 1948 followed by travel in Italy and France.Work from 1950's divides between the townscape and children of depressed urban Glasgow from her studio in Townhead and her powerful land and seascapes from her cottage at Catterline, in Kincardineshire. Died tragically young.
Lucian Freud (1922- ). German-born British painter.Considered by many critics to be Britain's best figurative painter.
Jack Vettriano - Scottish artist.Born in 1951 in eastern Scotland, Vettriano - at that time bearing the family name Hoggan - left school at 15 and followed his father down into the coal mines. He started painting at the age of 21, teaching himself to paint.
He is now the UK's best selling artist, with his picture 'The Singing Butler' being the UK's best selling print.
He has an homnorary degree from St Andrew's University, and was awarded the OBE in November 2003. But his pictures do not hang in any British art gallery.
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