Gordon Stuart

Gordon Stuart RCA is a Swansea based artist with an international reputation.  He was born in Toronto, Canada in 1924. He attended the Ontario College of Art and St Martin's, London, before completing his studies at the University of London. He has lived in Wales since 1952. There followed many years as a lecturer and Art Advisor until 1985, when he decided to dedicate his time fully to painting.

An established portrait painter, his paintings can be found in numerous public collections including the National Portrait Gallery who own five of his works. One of these includes the last ever portrait of Dylan Thomas who sat for Gordon Stuart just weeks before Dylan died in America. He has won a number of awards and prizes for landscapes and portraits and the National Portrait Gallery of Canada have recently purchased three of his portraits.

As artist in residence at the Dylan Thomas Centre in Swansea, Gordon Stuart has built up an unrivalled body of work of visiting poets, writers and thinkers including portraits of Allen Ginsberg, Bernice Rubens and Seamus Heaney.