Lawrence Coulson

My father being Gerald Coulson, one of the country’s foremost landscape and aviation artists, I grew up with oil paintings propped up to dry in various places around the house and kind of took it all for granted. My father worked in a spare bedroom and for a while as a young child I thought all Dad’s did the same.

I was always encouraged to draw but I never really excelled in art at school but by the age of 21, my father encouraged me to have a go at some oil painting. He gave me some pointers at technique, which colours to use, and the importance of tone values. The first attempts were pleasing enough and selling a few gave me the confidence to approach a local gallery and up until the mid nineties this was the mainstay of my part time career. At this point I became convinced that I wanted, and needed, to paint professionally. However, it was not until July 1997 that I became a professional artist.

Almost immediately the quality of my work improved and after several successful showings at the Halcyon Gallery, Washington Green embarked on a publishing programme. Since joining them my career has gone from strength to strength and I now attend promotional exhibitions all around the country, which I have to say I rather quite enjoy.