The Art Consultancy specialises in limited edition prints by Rolf Harris and Jack Vettriano, and hosts regular selling exhibitions of both artists' work at venues in Berkshire and Oxfordshire. For exhibition dates and venues, and details of how to find us, please see the panel, below right, where further exhibitions will be announced in due course.
ABOUT THE ARTISTS
EXHIBITION DATES AND VENUES
ROLF HARRIS was born in Perth,
Australia, in 1930 and wanted to be an artist from an early age. A champion swimmer in his teenage years, he moved to London in 1952 and enrolled at the City
& Guilds Art School, but a career in television beckoned and he quickly became established as a household name. His television and stage appear- ances have
continued to this day, winning him numerous accolades and making him one of the UK's best-loved entertainers. Multi-talented from the start, he has also
achieved success as an author, as well as a chart-topping musician and singer.
His main passion has always been painting, however, and his work has been exhibited in London's Royal Academy and National Gallery. In the last twenty
years Harris has devoted more time to painting and in 2005 he was commissioned to paint a portrait of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II for her eightieth birthday,
while his BBC television series, Rolf on Art, gained the highest ever ratings for a UK arts programme.
Harris is an honorary member of the Royal Society of British Artists and has been awarded the CBE, MBE and OBE. His work is highly collectable and has soared in
value over recent years.
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JACK VETTRIANO was born in
Fife, Scotland, in 1951 and left school at sixteen to become an apprentice mining engineer in the Scottish coal- fields. On his twenty-first birthday he was given a
set of watercolour paints and from then on he spent much of his spare time teaching himself to paint. His breakthrough came in 1989 when two of his paintings were
exhibited at the Royal Scottish Academy's annual show and sold on the first day. The following year three of his paintings were exhibited at the Royal
Academy Summer Exhibition in London to an equally rapturous reception. By then he had given up his job in order to paint full time, and demand for his work has
since grown rapidly, with sell-out exhibitions in Edinburgh, London, Hong Kong and New York.
Vettriano's paintings are reminiscent of film noir and often feature romantic or erotic themes. In 2004 his best-known painting, The Singing
Butler, sold at auction for just under £750,000. In the same year he was awarded the OBE and was the subject of a television documentary, Jack
Vettriano: The People's Painter, on the BBC's South Bank Show.
Vettriano divides his time between Fife, London and Nice.
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