John Myatt and John Cleese

New TV Series ‘Brush With Fame’

Six of Britain’s well-known faces from music, television and photography are immortalised in the style of six of the world’s most renowned artists in the brand new series ‘Brush with Fame’, premiering on Sky Arts 1 and Sky Arts HD from Wednesday 4 February 2009 at 19.30 each week.

Following on from John Myatt’s first major art series for Sky Arts, the hugely popular ‘Mastering the Art’ series, Sky Arts has enlisted Myatt to bring John Cleese, David Bailey, Tara Palmer-Tomkinson, Robin Gibb, Jane Horrocks and Ian Brown to life on canvas in the style of one of the great masters.

Socialite Tara Palmer-Tomkinson talks about ‘that kiss’ with Prince Charles, whilst legendary photographer David Bailey reminisces about photographing Princess Diana and offers his controversial opinion on her.

Offering a fascinating insight into the process of portraiture, Myatt also explores the individual technique of each iconic master painter and highlights why his choice of artist is so appropriate to the subjects.

• John Cleese (Matisse)
• David Bailey (Giacometti)
• Tara Palmer Tomkinson (Modigliani)
• Jane Horrocks (Sargent)
• Robin Gibb (Van Gogh)
• Ian Brown (Cezanne)

With fantastic press coverage, we are sure that John Myatt’s popularity will soar even higher, and we are anticipating a marked increase of interest in his artwork. View John’s new limited edition print ‘Spring‘ from our Spring 2009 releases!

Smart Gallery have just attended the NEC Spring Fair Event and have been privy to the new 2009 Spring Release limited edition prints and originals from our best-selling artists! Images and details are now available of new releases from favourite artists such as Bob Barker, Hamish Blakely, AJ Callan, Simon Claridge, Lawrence Coulson, Drew Darcy, Mark Edwards, Govinder, Sarah Graham, Mark Grieves, Paul Horton,Paul Kenton, Joy Kirton-Smith, Alexander Millar, John Myatt, Jennine Parker, Richard Rowan, Louis Sidoli, Peter Smith, Mark Spain, Mackenzie Thorpe and John Waterhouse.

Plus, we will soon have the details of the much anticipated 2009 tours from Neil Dawson, Jeff Rowland and Caroline Shotton.

And we are also excited to introduce newly signed Cityscape Artist Lesley-Anne Derks and ‘Grafitti’ Inspired Artist Ge Feng!!

These are very exciting collections and are truly not to be missed!! New Spring 2009 Releases have now been posted on our website and are now available to buy!!……Check us out!! www.smartgallery.co.uk

John Myatt

Best-selling artist John Myatt was featured on the prime time ITV show ‘Too Posh To Pay’ last night (20th January 2009). John has been one of the Smart Gallery’s top ten artists for some time now so we were thrilled to see him hitting the screen of a television show. Did you see this programme? If so, we would love to hear from you! Here is the link to a preview from the show.

To view John Myatt’s available limited edition prints, please click on the following link to our website:

http://www.smartgallery.co.uk/artists/john-myatt

Smart Gallery are pleased to announce that John Myatt will be visiting our Leeds Gallery on the 27th June.

If you missed ‘Too Posh to Pay’, click onto the following link to the ITV website where there is the option to watch again.