William Garfit, was born 1944 in Cambridgeshire where he now lives with his artist wife Gina. He has two daughters and a son, also an artist who has recently founded the Newlyn School of Art in Cornwall.

He studied at the Cambridge School of Art, won a scholarship to the Byam Shaw which was followed by a postgraduate three years at the Royal Academy Schools.

He has held One Man exhibitions in London since 1970 and regularly at the Tryon Gallery in Cork St & at Holland and Holland.

Much of his work is by commission, specialising in sporting rivers and water landscapes but also including other landscapes and paintings of houses. He always paints outside on location and is particularly interested in the mood and character of the water and landscape. Every painting is the stage for the onlooker's imagination, sharing the feeling and presence of the place. Commissions have taken Will from the southern chalk streams to the grand rivers of Scotland or the spate rivers of the Highlands. Also abroad to countries including Iceland, Russia, U.S.A, Argentina, Brazil, Austria, Germany, France and Switzerland. His work is represented in many private collections including those at Sandringham, Highgrove, Woburn Abbey and Powderham Castle.

OIL ON CANVAS, LAID ON BOARD, SIGNED & DATED LOWER RIGHT. SMARTLY FRAMED.

Painting in excellent condition. Heavy gilt detailed frame with some minor rubbing, small marks & discolouration.