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Richard Salter (born 1979, West Yorkshire, England) is a British artist who is currently serving with in the Royal Corps of Signals, British Army.
Salter has a BA (Hons) in fine art. He was born in West Yorkshire. He has served 21 years in the British Army and was medically discharged in 2017. He held his first solo exhibition in Dorset in 2008, and has since painted celebrities, used actors as models, featured in Art magazines and won various awards. His work can be found in www.gallery21.co.uk based in Salisbury [1] [2] and he has exhibited in the Mall Galleries, London with the Armed Forces Art Society [3] and in Salisbury with the Army Art Society. [4]
He has more recently exhibited work in Tate Britain and also was a finalist on the BBC's Big Painting Challenge.
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John Jude Palencar is an American illustrator and fine artist, who specializes in works of fantasy, science fiction, and horror. In 2010, he was given the Hamilton King Award. His highly detailed work is described as containing a rich language of symbols and archetypes, which are left open to interpretation by the viewer.
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Iwona Maria Blazwick OBE is a British art critic and lecturer, and has been Director of the Whitechapel Art Gallery in London since 2001. She discovered Damien Hirst and staged his first solo show at a public London art gallery, Institute of Contemporary Arts in 1992. She supports the careers of young artists.
York Art Gallery is a public art gallery in York, England, with a collection of paintings from 14th-century to contemporary, prints, watercolours, drawings, and ceramics. It closed for major redevelopment in 2013, reopening in summer of 2015. The building is a Grade II listed building and is managed by York Museums Trust.
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Alison Mary Wilding OBE, RA is an English artist noted for her multimedia abstract sculptures. Wilding's work has been displayed in galleries internationally.
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Barry John MBE is a Welsh soldier and artist. He served in the British armed forces for over 20 years. In the 2010 New Years Honours List Barry John was awarded the MBE. He is mainly an abstract artist. Through his work he expresses stories, memories, demons, harsh and sometimes brutal truths and the beauty, colours and resilience of a conflicted world.
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Harry Robertson is a Welsh painter born in Scarborough, Yorkshire, England in 1943. Elected to the Royal Cambrian Academy in 2010, Robertson is a realist who paints landscapes, mostly of Wales, as well as portraits. He serves on the Governing Council of the Royal Cambrian Society and is a member of the Wirral Society of Arts.
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