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Graeme Lothian is a versatile oil painter with a background in the military, particularly in Airborne Forces. After a parachuting accident, he returned to his passion for painting. Over the decades, he has focused on various subjects including military, aviation, ‘en plein air’ landscape painting and cityscapes. His early works centred on taking his easel and paints out into the Kent countryside capturing the rolling hills and ever present Oast houses and farms near where he lives. A significant project involved painting over 50 pieces of artwork on the River Thames, taking Graeme over four years to complete which produced a subsequent book, An Artist on the Thames published in 2004. Another coffee table book An Artist in London was published in 2012. He began painting in oils in 1978 after being influenced by artists’ David Shepherd, Terence Cuneo, Frank Wootton and the maritime painter Montague Dawson. In 1992 he formed a partnership with the late Air Vice-Marshal Johnnie Johnson, the top scoring Allied fighter pilot on the Western Front during WWII, producing limited edition aircrew signed prints of WWII aviation subjects. His artistic journey includes solo exhibitions, exhibited at the prestigious BP Portrait awards at the National Portrait Gallery and international travel. Notably, travelling to see Sir Edmund Hillary in NZ to sign 200 Everest prints which Doug Scott (first Briton, with Dougal Haston, to climb Everest in ‘75) auctioned off to fund the building of schools, bridges and homes in the outlying hills of Nepal. He served as an official war artist on five military tours in Afghanistan. Producing medical artwork from Camp Bastion Hospital which were displayed in the Royal Society of Medicine, London in 2010.