ABOUT

Quinton always wanted to be an Artist or a designer due to the influence of his Architect father, Jim and Artist mother Freda . Following in his father's Architectural footsteps he had a successful architectural practice for many years but at the age of 44 decided to retire as he was worried of working himself into an early grave like his father who died of a heart attack at the age of 47!
After many family discussions plus numerous visits to a holiday apartment in Calahonda , Malaga Quinton`s family made the decision to move to Spain and after a year of getting used to their new life style , Quinton decided to follow in his mother's footsteps and took up painting ,teaching himself a impressionistic style similar to his mother, by watching art videos , reading books and using his architectural skills he had accumulated over the years . Now as the children have grown up he spends time between Spain and England . Over the years Quinton has built up a great reputation for producing unique art work that captures the essence of the subject in a well structured piece of art work that people can enjoy and depict a story or a memory every time they look at the painting.

Rafael Nadal

Friends enjoying a drink .Calahonda art Exhibition

Portrait with sunglass reflection

U3A brochure cover

Watercolour painting of Kelvin Fletcher and Oti Mabuse winning the BBC tv programme Strictley Come Dancing bought by his mother Karen Fletcher. The impressionistic style conveys the intimate movement of the dance

In Spain Quinton walks a lot and often stops off to paint town and village scenes and many beach scenes ,one of the beach sketches led to the couple in the beach painting, friends with a close friend of Rafael Nadel commissioning Quinton to do a painting of Rafael which has him in an action pose standing on a tennis court in the shape of Majorca overlooked by his family in the club stand, now the painting is on Nadel`s gym wall

The Calahonda 50th year Anniversary painting exhibition theme was to compose a scene that reflects the character of the area. Quinton reflected this in his successful submission that was shown in the local paper ,The Euro News, The picture successfully depicts a typical area of the centre of the town called El Zoco with a group of mates sitting in one of the many restaurants in the area whilst enjoying drinks.

Quinton has done many watercolour and oil dog portrait commissions one was a red setter next to its owner Alex Best the former wife of the late great footballer George Best.

Kevin Fletcher and Oti Mabuse

Some of Quinton`s work has been used for publishing, an example of this is the cover of the U3A brochure.

Some of the paintings Quinton has carried out have detailed briefs of what the client wants to be included within the painting ,one of these paintings was to paint on the largest possible sized watercolour paper available a painting of a beautiful town near Malaga ,Mijas Pueblo which shows groups of people and animals with their own story enjoying a party on the steps of Mijas Pueblo,The composition of the individual areas is united by the water coming from the top scene flowing down the steps

The fiesta

.The unique style and imagination help to create different or unusual paintings as shown in the painting ; Quinton painting a portrait under water of his son or a portrait painting of his son in law with a reflection in his sunglasses of his daughter.

A portrait painting of Quinton`s mother Freda Preston who was a big influence in his impressionistic style of painting .Freda often had paintings in exhibitions at the Royal West of England Academy .