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When equestrian artist Huw Williams and
his wife Jane moved to Scotland in the late 1990s, they were the
first couple ever to appear on the hit television programme
'Location, Location, Location'. Huw had grown up in North Wales,
studied for a Degree in Art Illustration at the University of
Newcastle-upon-Tyne and lived in Leicester and Manchester, and the
time felt right to retreat north of the border. They looked for, and
found, a home where Huw could produce his stunning large scale oil
paintings, Jane could run her equestrian business and their daughter
could learn to ride. Classically trained, but originally set on a
career as a magazine-illustrator in England, Huw decided to go back
to his first love, painting, at the same time as the family acquired
their first thoroughbred. "Jane bought Mia in the early 1990s and I
began sketching her straight away," Huw recalls. "Then, as friends
saw my work around the place requests for other horse portraits
started coming in and before long I found I was busy painting all
day long". Working in his huge old farm studio Huw has built up a
serious reputation as one of our finest equestrian artists. His
stylish and stylised compositions hold a unique place on the market
and have sold to private and corporate collectors all over the UK. |
