Patrick Caulfield was born in London in 1936. He trained at Chelsea School of Art and later at the Royal College of Art in London. He is most famous for his method of taking subjects and dead pan line and colour from the language of advertising and cheap illustrations as was popular with the Pop Art movement. Caulfield found intensity and humour in these images which he conveyed in a passionate, colourful and lively manner.

Caulfield has exhibited his work both nationally and internationally from the 1960's and had his first retrospective in 1981 at the Tate Gallery, London. This was followed by various print retrospectives throughout the 1990's and up to present day.

He is regarded as one of the most influential movers in the Pop Art generation and continued to explore the themes running through advertising in the present day. His work is hung in, among others, the Tate Gallery, London, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool, Victoria and Albert Museum, London and Dallas Museum, Texas.