Adrian Rigby

Adrian Rigby is universally recognized as a world’s top award winning artist. Adrian’s art includes marine art, maritime art, aviation art and wildlife art. This artist like so many other painters travel the world in search of subject matter. Using reference as the sea in different locales, or animals in their natural habitat. As for aviation art he has taken many many photos to study for accuracy of the intended subject.

Rigby was born in Chorley Lancashire England and studied at Blackpool College of Art 1979-1982. He was so good as a student that upon graduation he became the teacher where he taught 1982-1985.

His initial art was illustration for books where as a single man he made a nice living for himself. Adrian then discovered that he was a very talented artist using the medium of gouache which is a heavier type of water color. His career as an artist took off when he acquired an agent and signed up with Solomon and Whitehead a major British publisher to sell prints from his original artwork. By the late nineties he was already well known in the UK. By shear luck he met an American in 1999 who became his manager, the manager did for him in the USA what his agent in the UK did for him.

There was more for him to learn however as his manager mentioned that the American market was not as interested in watercolors/gouache for two reasons, one prestige and two sunlight, (a lot of sunlight fades watercolors and gouache). There is a lot more sunlight in the USA than the UK so he self taught himself as many good artists do, to work in both acrylic and oils. Today Adrian works almost exclusively in oils on both sides of the Atlantic.

As a single man Adrian worked both as a hobby and for a living in three studios located in the UK, Florida and Spain. With time constraints and now with a wife, two children and three dogs he now paints for the worldwide market only from his home in Lancashire County England.