Melvyn Warren-Smith is one of the many talented professional artists who’ve found a welcoming home in the creative town of Stroud. He’ll be taking over the Art Gallery with a one man show this September - expect a colourful, eclectic and uplifting exhibition!

Using rich, vibrant oil colour he depicts landscape, still life and portraiture with great intensity and often uses humour to spice up the moment. The local landscape really inspires his work – river, canal and commons, and splendid sunsets.

Melvyn studied fine art in Surrey and went on to win a David Murray landscape scholarship from the Royal Academy of Arts. For many years he worked as a highly sought after illustrator specialising  in romantic book-covers, working with such authors as Catherine Cookson, Maeve Binchy and Edwina Currie.