Hamish BLAKELY

Hamish Blakely studied art at Wimbledon School of Art and Kingston University. He paints directly onto canvas finding preliminary sketches unecessary allowing him to paint freely - Hamish Blakely is an artist with dynamism and passion.

After leaving college, Hamish Blakely became an illustrator and received a national award. The experience as an illustrator forced him to tackle an unlimited range of subject of matters and set him up well for his future career as a painter.

Hamish Blakely - "As far as subject matter is concerned, I have always loved painting people, favouring glimpses of figures and anatomy. I have always been drawn to confined areas of a piece - a spotlit area that reveals a rigid jaw line, or the twist in a turned neck". "My all time greats of painting have to be Caravaggio, Velasquez and Rembrandt".