Art by Adrian Chesterman

Adrian Chesterman is a commercial artist specialising in Digital illustration, photomanipulation, airbrush illustration, oil painting, portraits, murals & stock illustration.

Born in London in 1955 of Scottish descent, Adrian Chesterman M.A.RCA was educated at the William Harvey School in Kent. It was here that he first discovered his burning passion for the visual arts. This flame was further fanned by Rochester College of Design and subsequently at Norwich School of Art where he gained an honorary Bachelor of Arts degree and a place at the Royal College of Art in London for a post-graduate, Master-of-Arts, degree course. Since leaving college, Chesterman has worked in just about every sphere of the two- dimensional art world; Illustrator, portraitist, fine artist, lecturer and gallery owner.

Chesterman has illustrated book covers for Jackie Collins, Jack Higgins and Dick Francis, a science-fiction series for Penguin, many books on dinosaurs and a children's encyclopedia amongst innumerable others. He has illustrated many music album covers including 'Bomber' for Motorhead and 'The Road to Hell' for Chris Rea, produced an animated music video for the Eurythmics.

Chesterman lives in Andalucia in Spain and has also been designing gardens and parks for the rich and the famous. “I love designing gardens… When I'm painting a picture or a mural I am usually copying nature, but when I'm designing a garden I'm working with nature as my paint box.”