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Alwyn Crawshaw in his studio.

Successful painter, author and teacher Alwyn Crawshaw was born at Mirfield Yorkshire and studied at Hastings School of Art. He now lives in Dawlish, Devon with his wife June, where they have their own gallery.

Alwyn is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, and a member of the British Watercolour Society and the Society of Equestrian Artists. He is also President of the National Acrylic Painters Association and is listed in the current edition of Who’s Who in Art. As well as painting in watercolour, Alwyn also works in oil, acrylic and occasionally pastel. He chooses to paint landscapes, seascapes, buildings and anything else that inspires him. Heavy working horses and elm trees are frequently featured in his paintings and may be considered the artist’s trademark.

This book is one of eight titles written by Alwyn Crawshaw for the HarperCollins Learn to Paint series. Alwyn’s other books for HarperCollins include: The Artist at Work (an autobiography of his painting career), Sketching with Alwyn Crawshaw, The Half-Hour Painter, Alwyn Crawshaw’s Watercolour Painting Course, Alwyn Crawshaw’s Oil Painting Course and Alwyn Crawshaw’s Acrylic Painting Course.

To date Alwyn has made five television series: A Brush with Art, Crawshaw Paints on Holiday, Crawshaw Paints Oils, Crawshaw’s Watercolour Studio and Crawshaw Paints Acrylics, and for each of these he has written a book of the same title to accompany the series.

Alwyn has been a guest on local and national radio programmes and has appeared on various television programmes. In addition, his television programmes have been shown in the USA. He has made several successful videos on painting and in 1991 was listed as one of the top ten artist video teachers in America. Alwyn is also a regular contributor to the Leisure Painter magazine. Alwyn organises his own successful and very popular painting courses and holidays. He has also co-founded the Society of Amateur Artists, of which he is President.

Fine art prints of Alwyn’s well-known paintings are in demand worldwide. His paintings are sold in British and overseas galleries and can be found in private collections throughout the world. Painted mainly from nature and still life, Alwyn’s work has been favourably reviewed by the critics. The Telegraph Weekend Magazine reported him to be ‘a landscape painter of considerable expertise’ and the Artists and Illustrators magazine described him as ‘outspoken about the importance of maintaining traditional values in the teaching of art’.

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