Artists showing in 2025

Here’s a preview of artists showing at the 2025 Art of Motoring Exhibition.

For their full biography and artworks on show at the event check back on 27th October when you’ll be able to see an early glimpse of what to expect…

Adam Gompertz

The former car designer turned Church of England Priest Adam Gompertz specialises in finely detailed drawings, often sketching in-person at motoring events. His precise work is enhanced by fascinating radial notations which are not only decorative, but informative, adding a distinctive intellectual dimension to his art.

Alastair Gibson

After a 22-year engineering career with Benetton, BAR, and Honda F1 teams, Alastair turned to sculpture, blending motorsport engineering with his love of nature to create anatomically precise carbon-fibre works from used F1 parts. Notably he was commissioned to produce the 2024 British Grand Prix keepsake trophy.

Ana Herrero

Returning after her highly acclaimed debut last year, Spanish-born, UK-based artist Ana Herrero creates hyperrealist paintings exploring automotive culture and mythology. Combining an engineer’s precision with Pop-inspired irony, she produces bold, vibrant, and technically striking compositions.

David O’Brien

Another newcomer this year, David O’Brien is a mosaic artist and sculptor renowned for blending fine art with automotive culture. Inspired by motorsport legends, iconic liveries, and the design of performance cars, he creates bold, unique mosaic works that reimagine the motoring world in a vibrant, contemporary style.

Dexter Brown

A doyen of motoring art, Dexter Brown continues to paint in his inimitable style at age 84. Having begun his career designing album covers and painting portraits of pop stars, he is now best known for his impressionist depictions of cars, badges, and motoring icons – works that are seldom exhibited publicly today.

Elliot Learmond

Making his Art of Motoring debut, Elliot Learmond transforms motorsport into vivid abstraction in a style he calls ‘radiallism’. Using colours from iconic racing liveries – mixed in acrylic or with genuine manufacturer paints – and applying them with period-correct tyres, he creates works that capture racing’s speed and drama.

Eugenie Smit

Known for her intricate depictions of rabbits and foliage, Eugenie Smit has since turned to exploring car parts in her signature ceramic, inspired by a newfound passion for karting. Sculpting these works allow her to explore engineering while refining her precision, resulting in strikingly detailed, realistic forms.

Gregory Percival

Self-taught sculptor Gregory Percival began his career as an illustrator but now focuses on evocative automotive works that are cast in bronze and complemented by clear resin. Entirely handmade, his sculptures are designed to balance the static clarity of a model with the excitement of a kinetic piece.

Harry Gravett

At just 26, Harry Gravett is our youngest artist this year. Trained in Automotive Design, he masters traditional industry techniques using marker pen and pencil crayon to produce striking photorealistic illustrations of classic, sports and supercars – while working as a car designer for McLaren Special Operations.

Jean-Yves Tabourot

Oxford-based Frenchman Jean-Yves Tabourot is a former Williams F1 gearbox engineer who has turned his talents to painting. His bold style, combining vivid blocks of colour with exquisite detail, aims to capture the soul, style, and energy of beautiful machines, earning him popularity among collectors and enthusiasts alike.

Jeremy Dickinson

Newcomer Jeremy Dickinson is known for his distinctive style, often creating meticulous arrangements of miniature automobiles – often fair or flea-market finds – painted exclusively from life. Stacked in neat shapes, his compositions reflect both a childhood love of play and broader themes of human interaction with the landscape.

John Ketchell

Internationally renowned motorsport artist John Ketchell began as an illustrator and animator but turned away from the industry as computers took over. Starting in photorealism, he evolved into his signature impressionistic, semi-abstract style, using acrylic to capture the speed and energy of racing in spectacular, dynamic paintings.

Jon Stevenson

A matchbox model of a Porsche 930 Turbo gifted age six ignited Jon Stevenson’s passion for cars. After 25 years working in the City, he traded finance for brushes, following his portrait-painter grandfather into art. Today, Jon paints the classics he adores – often in acrylic – with Porsche frequently emerging as a favourite.

Kate Alger

Kate Alger specialises in fineliner drawings, hand-pulled screenprints, and hand-printed etchings, using traditional techniques to craft works that balance detail with bold, minimal compositions. Renowned for her prints of birds and animals, she also explores the aesthetics and craftsmanship of a bygone era in her automotive work.

Kevin McNicholas

Renowned for his detailed portraits of F1 luminaries, Kevin McNicholas paints with ultra-fine brushes – size 0000, just a single hair thick – often spending up to 1,500 hours on a single piece. Recently, he has focused on drivers ‘suited and booted’ including this year’s depiction of Oscar Piastri climbing from his race car.

Mike O’Connor

With a unique style, Mike O’Connor transforms V10 Formula 1 exhausts and pipes into one-off sculptures that are deliberately designed to mimic the shapes of musical instruments to celebrate the engines’ iconic roar. A celebrated artist, he has collaborated with the Benetton, Jordan and Williams teams.

Neil Collins

For Neil Collins, much of the joy in his art comes from meticulous research, ensuring every detail and colour is accurate when recreating old black-and-white photographs. He brings them to life in watercolours that capture the dynamic energy of historic motorsport, with clean lines that reveal a long career in design.

Nicholas Watts

Having spent part of his childhood near Brands Hatch, Nicholas Watts developed a lifelong passion for motorsport. Now a highly successful motoring artist, he creates atmospheric paintings that capture the drama and excitement of epic racing scenes, often featuring signatures from the drivers and personalities portrayed.

Oliver Ray

Oliver Ray’s automotive drawings in pencil and charcoal are designed to capture the nostalgia of old photographs. Though his work is rooted in realism and can initially be mistaken for a photo, he deliberately leaves visible pencil marks and fingerprints, celebrating both the medium and the meticulous craft behind each piece.

Paul Cameron

A newcomer this year, Sussex-based sculptor Paul Cameron is renowned for his exquisitely detailed, CAD-designed racing car scale models. But beyond these, he also undertakes large-scale projects, creating full-sized body bucks for specialist car manufacturers and collectors across the globe.

Peter Birtwistle

Peter Birtwhistle enjoyed a distinguished career in car design, with roles at Vauxhall Motors, Audi, Porsche and Mazda Motors Europe, where he ultimately served as Chief Designer. Now retired, he continues to celebrate his lifelong passion for automobiles through acrylic-on-canvas studies of his favourite cars.

Ray West

Ray West is an award-winning pastel and pencil artist, who left a career in banking and investment to reignite his passion for art in 2020. His distinctive hyper-realistic style often contrasts vibrant supercars against monochrome architecture or captures automotive subjects through reflections rather than direct views.

Richard Neergaard

London-based artist Richard Neergaard transforms original components from race, exotic and classic cars into bold, one-of-a-kind artworks, which have been exhibited at F1 headquarters, the British Motor Museum, and the Los Angeles Driving Museum. A regular at the Art of Motoring, he returns this year after missing last year.

Richard Wheatland

A regular exhibitor, Richard Wheatland began his career in precision engineering before dedicating his retirement to painting. Renowned for technical accuracy and meticulous historical research, his work spans a wide range of media, including watercolour, gouache, acrylic, oils, conté pastel, pencil, and ink and wash.

Robin Bark

A long-standing friend of the Art of Motoring, Robin Bark has exhibited every year since its launch in 2015. Captivated by the style and energy of cars, he captures their essence through sculpture. Each piece is sand-moulded, cast in solid metal, and hand-finished – its reflective surfaces designed to evoke speed and movement.

Roy Putt

Former rock guitarist Roy Putt has been a regular exhibitor at The Art of Motoring throughout its eleven years. Renowned for his whimsical paintings, often featuring Dalmatians and Austin 7s, he celebrates a bygone era of grace and elegance. These popular works earned him a three-year tenure as Salon Privé’s official artist.

Simon Britnell

A popular regular, Simon Britnell enjoyed a successful career designing computer games before moving into film visual effects, contributing to blockbusters such as Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows and Guardians of the Galaxy. He has since returned to traditional ‘analogue’ art, painting striking car montages on canvas.

Stefan Johansson

Former Le Mans winner and F1 driver for McLaren and Ferrari, Stefan Johansson has earned equal acclaim as a contemporary artist. His work ranges from abstract radial compositions and dynamic pointillism to hyper-realist portraits. He has also created art cars, designed watches, and recently completed a mural for the Mexican Grand Prix.

Steve Goodwin

Graphic designer and illustrator Steve Goodwin works across a range of styles but has a particular passion for linocut printing. These distinctive, intricate works proved a success last year, leading to a commission from the Royal Automobile Club for this year’s London to Brighton Veteran Car Run programme cover.

Terence Ross

Terence Ross stands out for his vibrant 3D wall-mounted sculptures of cars and motorbikes, crafted with epoxy and oil paint. A striking newcomer last year, his bold works often feature playful details. He is also known for his wild and wacky Speed Freaks models, which were mass produced and sold globally.

William David Francomb

A newcomer from Lancashire, William David Francomb is a self-taught artist and qualified Architectural Technician. Passionate about art from a young age, he excels in technical drawing and produces realistic, figurative paintings in oils and acrylics, covering subjects from portraits and motor racing to landscapes and animals.