Alan Kingsbury was born in London in 1960 and began painting in oils at the age of nine. He studied art history at the University of Wales and New Academy for Art Studies specialising in old master and modern European painting and subsequently worked in museum and auction room environments. From 1986 he turned to painting full time, working initially in Italy, then Scotland and since 1991, West Cornwall. Alan Kingsbury is an elected Academician of the Royal West of England Academy and today concentrates on large scale still life, interior and landscape compositions in a fluid and painterly style.