Luke Elwes
Luke Andrew Cary Elwes (born 26 July 1961) is a British contemporary artist whose paintings capture his encounters with the landscape and with the elements. He gained prominence in the early nineties when he returned from his travels in India, Asia and North Africa with a series of key paintings. Biography Elwes (pronounced "El-wez") was born in London, where he now works and lives with his wife, Anneke and their two sons Jake Elwes and Toby Elwes. The eldest of three sons of Peter John Gervase Elwes (1929–2017), an executive in oil and gas companies and banking and Rosalie Ann, daughter of the Army officer James Hennessy. His grandfather was the painter Simon Elwes RA and is a first cousin of the actor Cary Elwes. His early years were spent in Teheran, Persia, where the light and space of the desert were a formative influence. He attended Worth School then between 1979 and 1985 he studied History at Bristol University and Painting at Camberwell School of Art. In 2007 he undertook postgraduate research in Art History at Birkbeck, University of London. While working at Christie's, he began to travel and write, and after meeting Bruce Chatwin in 1987 he went