Early Biography written by John Gilboy James Naughton was born in Bolton, Lancashire, on the 6th May 1971, and apart from his three college years in Leeds and a short spell in America, he has never left. It is from this large provincial northern English industrial town that he began what was to become a most extraordinary career as one of Britain’s most accomplished and sought after landscape painters. There was nothing in his traditional working class background that would suggest painting as an obvious career choice. He came from a large catholic family, his father a steel-fixer and his mother a shop worker, and James was a twin, the third of five children, all boys. As relief from manual work his father would often walk in the countryside around the town with the young James at his side, and these early experiences instilled in the boy a passion for the moors and valleys which were to become the subject of so many of his paintings in later life. Read more at: http://www.jamesnaughton.com/information/Bio/ INTERVIEW ABOUT HIS PROCESS In Conversation with John Gilboy 2005 JG. How do you go about the business of making a picture? [Read the complete interview at: http://www.jamesnaughton.com/information/About-James-Naughton/] JUSTINE GAUNT REVIEW James Naughton's Painting - February 2008 By Justine Gaunt It seems almost too obvious to say it, but landscape is key to James Naughton’s work. For the many years I have known his work and longer, he has painted sweeping, breathtaking landscapes, devoid of figures, but always with the hand of humanity present in field margins and hedgerows. See complete review at: http://www.jamesnaughton.com/information/-The-Essence-of-Light--by-Justine-Gaunt/ undefined

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