Terry McKivragan

Born in Cheshire in 1929 Terry McKivragan studied at Wimbledon Art School, gaining his National Diploma in Design. Then followed a career in commercial art, including extensive experience as a designer, illustrator and Art Director and culminating in the running of his own graphic design studio.

Throughout this period of his career, Terry McKivragan's love of water-colour landscape painting and his admiration for painters like Turner, grew in strength and in 1986 he left the commercial world and became a freelance artist, concentrating on water colour painting.

A recent development is in the use of acrylics - a medium that lends itself to much larger paintings with a more impressionistic and bolder technique. These have been accepted for the Britain's Painters Exhibition (winning the Best Acrylic award), for the Hunting/Observer Art Prizes Finalists Exhibition, for the Laing Art Competition National Exhibition and for the RI (Medal Award for the most outstanding work by a non member) as well as the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition. Terry McKivragan's work is also included Acrylics Masterclass - a book published by Harper Collins which discusses the work and techniques of nine artists, and has been featured in art magazines.