Francis Farmar was born in Surrey in 1948 and began painting at an early age. He won the Eton College School Drawing Prize and later studied in Florence at Simi's Academy. He attended St Martins's School of Art and the West of England College of Art, Bristol, graduating in 1971.

After working in Christie's Modern British Picture department in London he resumed painting in the mid-1980's and lived in Scotland until 1993, working both as an artist and independent art consultant. Farmar is now a full-time artist based in the West Country.

He works within a long tradition of panoramic landscape painting, to which is added his own distinctive vision of life which captures and encapsulates the life and spirit of a place. Farmar's third solo exhibition with Flying Colours Gallery was in May 2013.

Oil paintings and watercolours range in price from £2,000 to £12,500
If you require further information or wish to purchase one of the works below please contact the gallery.

Beach Scene, Swanage, Dorset
oil on canvas, 61cm x 61cm

Hungerford Bridge from South Bank, London
oil on canvas, 61cm x 61cm

Poole Quay , Dorset
watercolour, 51cm x 51cm