British painter John Bawtree qualified as an architect before deciding to pursue the life of a full-time artist.  He received a GREENSHIELD FOUNDATION AWARD in 1978, when he held his first London exhibition.  He has travelled extensively and has since had over forty one-man exhibitions as well as diversifying into occasional architectural work, murals and illustration for TV.  His most successful recent exhibitions were at The Aldeburgh Cinema Gallery; the British Embassy, Oman; Melitensia Gallery, Malta and Piers Feetham Gallery, London.

He has work in private collections in England, Scotland, Ireland, France, Italy, Switzerland, Spain, Sudan, Oman, Dubai, Canada, Mexico and the USA.  John Bawtree is delighted to receive commissions.  Past commissions include a set of commemorative paintings of the old British Embassy in Oman for the Foreign and Commonwealth Office and he was commissioned by Devonport dockyard to paint the ex-royal yacht Britannia.  His most recent commission was a set of watercolours of Oman for the Mathaf Gallery in Knightsbridge.

In the past his most prolific source of work has been the ANZ Grindlays bank for whom he has produced sixty five paintings for reproduction in calendars; and Gulf Greetings in Dubai who started a heritage series of cards with three dozen of his paintings of the United Arab Emirates. In January 2005 his work was sold for the first time at auction at Christies in South Kensington.