WINNER
Retail Art Gallery of the Year
David Henty
David Henty has become one of the most well known art copyists in the world, meticulously recreating the works of the masters.
David’s history as an artist started with a short stint in HM Prison for forgery in the mid-1990s. It was while serving the sentence that David was inspired to start painting after being seduced by the stories of the artists he had studied. Fascinated by their technical genius he became more and more interested in attaining a level of expertise, and being ‘connected’ to the very psyche of the artists, even dreaming of their lives and the masterpiece artworks.
Recent press attention from the likes of The Sunday Telegraph, Daily Express and high-profile appearances on Sky News and BBC Radio 4 just to mention a few, confirm a mounting interest in David Henty's artwork and a renewed appreciation for this growing and respected genre.