Gordon Lees

Born in Birmingham in 1933, Gordon Lees is a self-taught artist who came late to painting full time, having first had careers in the RAF, industry, mining, commerce, and finally in plastics design where he was a successful industrial stylist.

Throughout these years, Gordon painted and exhibited in what spare time he had. By the mid seventies the demand for his work was such that he decided to become what he had always wanted to be - a full-time artist.

Gordon first established himself in the Cotswolds where he became a well known and sought after landscape painter. His delicate style and attention to detail enable him to recreate the feel and atmosphere of the English countryside, and also to reflect the traditional values of a rural England now so sadly missed.

Gordon now lives with his wife, two Golden Retrievers and two cats in a small North Devon village, and continues to do every day what he loves best - painting scenes of time gone by.

Gordon's paintings have been exhibited at the Mall Galleries in London, the Home Counties, the Cotswolds, the South West, the North East and in Northern Ireland, and are to be found in many private collections throughout the UK, America and Japan. In recent years, Gordon's work has also become well known on greetings cards throughout the country.