Jonathan Wolstenholme

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Jonathan Wolstenholme (born 1950) is a British artist and illustrator.

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Early life

Wolstenholme was born in 1950, and was educated at Purley Grammar School, before graduating from Croydon Art College, which he attended from 1969 to 1972. [1]

Career

Wolstenholme has been a freelance illustrator for many years, working for leading advertising agencies, publishers and a huge number of magazines. [1] [2]

He has had several one-man shows in London, and has exhibited at the Singer and Friedlander Exhibition several times, and also at the Discerning Eye Competition at the Mall Galleries, winning the main £3,000 ING Purchase Prize in 2002. [3] In 1997, an exhibition of Wolstenholme's work was shown in New York City at the "Works on Paper" fair. [1]

Wolstenholme is known for his amazingly detailed works deriving from a love of old books and of the paraphernalia associated with a bygone age whose hallmarks were finely skilled labour and exquisite craftsmanship in the production of all manner of objects. [1]

In 2017, his work has sold at Christie's auction house, as part of The Astor Collection from Tillypronie, Aberdeenshire, [4] which The Daily Telegraph described as "the best collection" of sporting art "that will ever come on to the market". [5]

Illustrated works

Personal life

Wolstenholme is married, with two children, and lives in London. [1]

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