David Smeadon takes a painting trip down memory lane…

I first started painting way back when I was in primary school. I was interested in the birds I saw in the parks and garden and began drawing and painting them. I remember my teacher said I captured the shapes perfectly. 

We talk to Greenleaf & Blueberry

Greenleaf & Blueberry creates handmade materials and supplies for the travelling artist, including a line of artisanal handmade watercolours.

An accomplished painter, lecturer, inventor and world traveler, Bryan Mark Taylor is a true renaissance man. As a painter, Bryan has won numerous top awards in America’s most prestigious plein air invitationals and his work has been shown in museums across the country. He has been featured in Fine Art Connoisseur, Plein Air, Southwest Art, American Art Collector and American Artist Workshop magazines.

Emma Ball is a renowned British Illustrator, based in Nottingham. Her works are sold throughout the UK in various shops.

Jeremy Lipking is one of the worlds most prolific realist painters of the 21st Century.

Jeremy was one of the first artists Rosemary met during her first business trip to America over seven years ago. Since that day Jeremy has been team Rosemary; freely shouting about our brushes to all his students and helping us design new ranges.

I paint portraits and find the practice endlessly fascinating. I paint other genres but always come back to portraits. What is it about portraits? I have often wondered.

Tony Merrick was born in Castleford, West Yorkshire, England in 1948, the birthplace of sculptor and artist Henry Moore.

I first stumbled upon the SC last January, two suitcases full of brushes in tow, and snow up to my knees. I was immediately made to feel so welcome; the Salmagundi Club is somewhere I will always make time to visit when I’m in New York.

Roger formerly directed wildlife films as a Senior Producer for the renowned BBC Natural History Unit in Bristol, England for series such as The Natural World and Wildlife on One.

You can get a clue as to the origin or present home port of a fishing boat by decoding its official registration number, usually painted somewhere visible on stern or bow. Taken from first and last letter, PE declares Penzance, FY Fowey and so on.