Gary Long was born in Birmingham in 1945 and studied at Birmingham College of Art and Manchester College of Art School of Advanced Studies. There he was awarded an A.D.F. (Manc.) the equivelent of a MA by research. Gary moved to Vancouver in Canada for two years in his early twenties. He spent several years working as a freelance illustrator for international publishers and advertising agencies.  He is an artist member of the Society of Illustrators in New York. Gary has exhibited his paintings in British Columbia, Vermont, New York and Nantucket, and many galleries in England.  In 2002 Gary was commisioned to paint six paintings for the state rooms on the Queen Mary 2 liner.


Recent Gallery Shows

Webbs Road Gallery London
Gallery Tresco Scillies
Great Atlantic Gallery Cornwall
Martins Gallery Cheltenham
Thomas Henry Fine Art Nantucket
Slate Valley Museum New York state
Southern Vermont Art Center Manchester
Granite Museum, Barre, Vermmont
New West Gallery, B.C. Canada
Gary lectures part time at University College Falmouth, England where he teaches drawing.

Artist Statement

"My aim as a figurative painter is not to just produce the image in front of me, but to get deeper and explore my response to the atmosphere evoked at a certain moment.  I enjoy the process of moving the paint around the surface on a journey that takes different directions and struggles along the way so that the painting becomes a physical object rather than just an image."

Gary Long