2009 limited edition prints



2008 limited edition prints





Jack Vettriano, Artist Information

Jack Vettriano was born in Fife, Scotland in 1951. He began his working life aged
sixteen in the coal-fields of Scotland where he trained and worked as a mining
engineer before going on to work at the personnel department at the colliery. He
took up painting in 1976 after his girlfriend gave him some watercolour paints for
his birthday. Vettriano spent much of his spare time painting and is a self-taught
artist; he became known in the art world in 1989 at Royal Scottish Academy's
annual exhibition where he had two paintings accepted and sold on the first day.
The following year he had three paintings in the Royal Academy, London Summer
Show which also received an overwhelming public response.

Vettriano's figurative work is inspired by his main loves: nostalgia for his youth
and romance. Stylistically his work is reminiscent of 1940-50s Film Noir cinema;
dramatic scenes are atmospherically lit and there is usually an implied but
ambiguous narrative.

Over the past two decades, Vettriano's popularity has grown phenomenally and
private collectors of his work include Jack Nicolson and Terrence Conran.
Vettriano has had sell-out solo shows internationally and his most famous piece
The Singing Butler sold at a Sotheby's auction for £744,800. In 2003, Vettriano
was awarded an OBE for Services to the Visual Arts.