Howard Birchmore is an acrylic artist from Tilehurst who has been painting professionally for 9 years. His specialty lies in capturing the light, mood and atmosphere of a location. Particularly spectacular is Howard’s ability to capture the play of light on water. He paints seascapes of all different types from stormy Cornish coastlines to sunsets over the waterways of Venice. Lovers of romantic locations will not be disappointed.

Before moving to Dorset Stephen Foster was one of Berkshire’s most eminent and widely collected watercolour landscape artists. He is originally from Tilehurst and may be known to some of you from Goring Mill Gallery where he was spectacularly successful. He now paints abstracts and semi-abstracts using acrylics and exhibits in some of southern England’s most prestigious galleries.

Clive Eastland used to live in Inkpen just beyond Newbury. He is now based in Northamptonshire although his heart belongs in Berkshire. Clive is completely self-taught but has been a full time professional artist for the last six years. He enjoys painting a wide range of subjects although it is his love of landscape in all its forms, beaches, fields, trees and sky that dominates his recent work. Clive uses pastels almost exclusively. Drawing on the subtlety of light and mood he loves the richness and vivid colour inherent in the pastel medium and likes to convey a sense of atmosphere in his paintings.