WILLIAM FOYLE

'William Foyle is fascinating and his future wants watching'.

Sir Timothy Clifford, former director of the National Galleries of Scotland

One of the delights in life is to discover young talent and watch its development. William has a commitment and obsession for painting which I am sure will bear 'fruit'. [His work] is full of ambition and energy'.

Terry New, Head of Fine Art at the Royal Academy

'I paint every day, without exception. I become absorbed in my paintings, and find myself captivated by my next painting at every stroke of my current one. Painting is something I can't always control ... it comes without wanting it to.'

William Foyle

Since taking part in last year's Borders Artists exhibition at the age of just eighteen, and being the only artist to sell all their paintings, William's career has taken some exciting turns and is going from strength to strength. In October last year he held his first solo exhibition at Gallery 8 in St James's, London. The exhibition was a great success, attracting the attention of several national newspapers and garnering many admiring reviews, as well as being a near sell-out. William's next major solo exhibition is scheduled for 2014 and in the meantime he is concentrating on a series of prints and monotypes.

William was awarded an art scholarship to Stowe School in 2006 before taking lessons in life drawing at The Royal Academy in London and entering Edinburgh College of Art. After successful group exhibitions with Partridge Fine Art and The Air Gallery in London, William took the decision last year to base himself in London full time, although he regularly returns to paint in his studio in the Borders near Earlston. His paintings are composed of confident and accomplished brushstrokes that form striking and highly original images which cannot fail to make an immediate impact on the viewer