Guy Gladwell was born in east Africa in 1946. He came to England with his family when he was 9 years old to complete his education, before attending Art College from 1963 to 1965. He embarked on a varied career including sculpture, photography and filmmaking, eventually settling down to full-time painting in 1970.
Guy’s art has a very individual hallmark, which is his technical skill in communicating subtly the understatement of his subject matter, so that his work is nearly always austere, even solitary in its imagery. He himself dislikes being categorised but it would be fair to label him loosely as one of the British realists.
Guy Gladwells paintings are known and collected internationally. Collectors include Paul Simon, Freddie Heineken, Peter Langan, Michael Caine and the Bush Family. Sony, Dulux, Cadbury’s and Volvo have also used his work.
Mixed Shows:
London and various places in UK
New York, Dallas and Los Angeles
Paris
Dusseldorf and Cologne
Milan
Amsterdam
Stockholm
Tokyo
One Man Shows:
London
New York
Dusseldorf
Work for Publications include:
Newsweek Magazine
Esquire Magazine
The Atlantic
Expression
