British painter Peregrine Heathcote creates narrative scenes set in the Jazz Age. His statuesque women and stylish men, frequently appearing alongside Art Deco-era trains or cars in the golden light of late afternoons, are on the move. Heathcote’s oil paintings burst with color and conjure a long-gone world of glamour and intrigue.
Heathcote initially established himself as a portrait artist. In the mid-1990s, after studying at Heatherley School of Fine Art and the Florence Academy of Fine Arts, he secured commissions for portraits of royalty, celebrities and other high-profile subjects. He has since begun to draw on his past in order to create work that is both nostalgic and contemporary.
Heathcote was born in London. His father was an antiques dealer specializing in militaria. As a result, his childhood home was stacked with collectible arms, weaponry and relics from various historical battles. Heathcote’s mother was fond of fashion, and the artist amassed a collection of vintage hats from around the world. His bedroom walls were adorned with textiles from Asia and the Middle East. Heathcote’s parents moved to Dubai in the early 1970s, and he spent his time playing with children of sheiks.
Returning to England at age 8, Heathcote took summertime classes at Heatherly in printmaking and nude drawing — he is the youngest student to have attended the school. Later, he studied at the Florence Academy of Fine Arts in Italy. He pursued a career as a painter and began painting members of royal families such as Prince Jeffrey of Brunei and the Duke and Duchess of St Albans.
Not satisfied with a life of portraiture but continuing to work in a realist style, Heathcote now draws on his fondness for a bygone era in his travel-focused work. His inspiration comes from the journeys of his youth, his father’s love of antiques, his mother’s love of fashion and his grandfather’s exploits as a test pilot in the Royal Air Force.
Heathcote has collaborated with Ralph Lauren and has participated in group and solo exhibitions in London and in cities all over the United States.
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"Above and Beyond"
By Peregrine Heathcote
Located in Scottsdale, AZ
Peregrine Heathcote’s paintings conjure a world of intoxicating glamour and intrigue, slipping across the boundaries of time to fuse iconic pre-war design with modern conceptions of ...
Canvas, Oil
"To Be By Your Side"
By Peregrine Heathcote
Located in Scottsdale, AZ
Peregrine Heathcote’s paintings conjure a world of intoxicating glamour and intrigue, slipping across the boundaries of time to fuse iconic pre-war design with modern conceptions of ...
Oil, Canvas
"You're My Hero"
By Peregrine Heathcote
Located in Scottsdale, AZ
Peregrine Heathcote’s paintings conjure a world of intoxicating glamour and intrigue, slipping across the boundaries of time to fuse iconic pre-war design with modern conceptions of ...
Canvas, Oil
"Venice"
By Peregrine Heathcote
Located in Scottsdale, AZ
Peregrine Heathcote’s paintings conjure a world of intoxicating glamour and intrigue, slipping across the boundaries of time to fuse iconic pre-war design with modern conceptions of ...
Canvas, Oil
"The Sky's the Limit"
By Peregrine Heathcote
Located in Scottsdale, AZ
Peregrine Heathcote’s paintings conjure a world of intoxicating glamour and intrigue, slipping across the boundaries of time to fuse iconic pre-war design with modern conceptions of ...
Canvas, Oil
"The Sky's the Limit"
By Peregrine Heathcote
Located in Scottsdale, AZ
Peregrine Heathcote’s paintings conjure a world of intoxicating glamour and intrigue, slipping across the boundaries of time to fuse iconic pre-war design with modern conceptions of ...
Canvas, Oil
"Fairway View"
By Peregrine Heathcote
Located in Scottsdale, AZ
Peregrine Heathcote’s paintings conjure a world of intoxicating glamour and intrigue, slipping across the boundaries of time to fuse iconic pre-war design with modern conceptions of ...
Canvas, Oil
"Gatsby's Invitation"
By Peregrine Heathcote
Located in Scottsdale, AZ
Peregrine Heathcote’s paintings conjure a world of intoxicating glamour and intrigue, slipping across the boundaries of time to fuse iconic pre-war design with modern conceptions of ...
Canvas, Oil
"Jetstar Quest"
By Peregrine Heathcote
Located in Scottsdale, AZ
Peregrine Heathcote’s paintings conjure a world of intoxicating glamour and intrigue, slipping across the boundaries of time to fuse iconic pre-war design with modern conceptions of ...
Canvas, Oil
Land's End
By Peregrine Heathcote
Located in Greenwich, CT
“Exploring New Places,” is an exhibition hosted by Cavalier Ebanks Galleries featuring new works by British artist Peregrine Heathcote. Caval...
Canvas, Oil
"La Dolce Vita" narrative figure painting by Peregrine Heathcote
By Peregrine Heathcote
Located in Greenwich, CT
Oil on canvas painting by Peregrine Heathcote of a woman standing in front of car.
Canvas, Oil
The Dissidents: Discourse on the Golden Mean
By Michael Tole
Located in New Orleans, LA
Michael Tole says of his work… This work draws a connection between the didactic moralizing tendencies of Neo Classicism (represented in the style of the painting) and Modernism (represented in the architectural setting). Though modern art eschews the naturalistic imagery used by Neo Classicists, both movements pursued a self-important, austere, self-consciously masculine aesthetic that they saw as synonymous with virtue. Set in the MoMA courtyard, a passel of men lounge about, regarding a golden statue which looks terribly out of place in this modernist vitrine. The uncomfortable architectural setting, prisonlike and cold, provides a foil for the odalisque-like young men sprawled on hard stone benches and paying homage to the central idol. In my current work, The Revisionist Histories, I am writing letters to art history, literature, and mythology in an attempt to reflect the social changes that have reshaped our society over the past century. As part of this agenda, I explore the evolution of gender norms, power dynamics, and representation within Western visual culture and what this implies for the negotiation between pleasure, justice, and our culturally specific discourse on beauty. The seed for The Revisionist Histories was sewn when I caught a glimpse of my preteen daughters watching music videos on their iPad as I chopped veggies for dinner. Out of the corner of my eye I caught glimpses of music videos featuring Beyonce, Taylor Swift, Ariana Grande, Katy Perry, and Doja Cat gyrating across the tiny screen. A better parent might have snatched the iPad away, but I was overcome with hallucinatory visions of this pop diva...
Oil, Canvas
$10,800
H 76.78 in W 51.19 in D 1.97 in
The republican picnic Stéphane Fauchille Contemporary art painting colour humour
By Stéphane Fauchille
Located in Paris, FR
Oil paint on canvas Unique work Hand-signed by the artist Stéphane Fauchille, dream anthropologist “Would you, for a moment, like to become the Claude Lévi-Strauss of the aborigin...
Canvas, Oil
$5,597
H 38.19 in W 51.19 in D 1.97 in
Parallel events #2 - Hélène Duclos, 21st Century, Contemporary Painting
By Hélène Duclos
Located in Paris, FR
Oil on canvas Signed Unique work 1 / Hélène DUCLOS, 2016 – Artist Statement “Questioning the human condition and the position of being alive – What is it to be a living being? Who /...
Canvas, Oil
$3,000
H 45.67 in W 31.89 in D 1.58 in
French Contemporary Art by Jean-Marc Teillon - Série des Forêts N° 2
By Jean-Marc Teillon
Located in Paris, IDF
Signed on reverse Jean-Marc Teillon is a French artist born in 1856 who lives & works in Arcueil, France. He was formerly director of Galerie Municipale Julio Gonzalez in Arcueil.
Canvas, Oil
French Contemporary Art by KEJ - Un Monde Violent
By Kej
Located in Paris, IDF
KEJ is a French artist born in 1959 who lives & works in Paris, France. He is considered to belong to the movement of Figuration Libre & Outsider Art. His works are referenced in the...
Canvas, Oil, Acrylic
$830
H 19.69 in W 15.75 in D 1.19 in
Armenian Contemporary Art by Kamsar Ohanyan - Turned Off the Electricity
By Kamsar Ohanyan
Located in Paris, IDF
Oil on canvas, Kamsar Ohanyan is an Armenian artist born in 1991 who lives and works in Yerevan, Armenia. He studied in Yerevan at State Pedagogical University with Kh. Abovyan at t...
Canvas, Oil
French Contemporary Art by KEJ - Aenigma
By Kej
Located in Paris, IDF
KEJ is a French artist born in 1959 who lives & works in Paris, France. He is considered to belong to the movement of Figuration Libre & Outsider Art. His works are referenced in the...
Canvas, Oil, Acrylic
$3,000
H 19.69 in W 19.69 in D 1.19 in
Georgian Contemporary Art by Teona Yamanidze - Ortonesque
By Teona Yamanidze
Located in Paris, IDF
Oil on canvas
Canvas, Oil
$72,000
H 72.05 in W 96.07 in D 2.05 in
American Contemporary Art by Maxwell Stevens - Autumn Leaves, Rehearsal
Located in Paris, IDF
Oil on canvas, artwork signed at the back Maxwell Stevens is an American artist born in 1971 who lives and works in New York, USA. He received an MFA in Painting from the School of ...
Canvas, Oil
$30,000
H 63 in W 51.19 in D 2.17 in
American Contemporary Art by Maxwell Stevens - Drum Circle, Central Park
Located in Paris, IDF
Oil on canvas, artwork signed at the back Maxwell Stevens is an American artist born in 1971 who lives and works in New York, USA. He received an MFA in Painting from the School of ...
Canvas, Oil
$6,707
H 35.04 in W 57.09 in D 1.97 in
Alien invasion Stéphane Fauchille Contemporary art painting colour humour
By Stéphane Fauchille
Located in Paris, FR
Oil paint on canvas Unique work Hand-signed by the artist Stéphane Fauchille, dream anthropologist “Would you, for a moment, like to become the Claude Lévi-Strauss of the aborigin...
Canvas, Oil
$6,707
H 35.44 in W 51.19 in D 1.97 in
The umbrellas Stéphane Fauchille Contemporary art landscape painting colour
By Stéphane Fauchille
Located in Paris, FR
Oil paint on canvas Unique work Hand-signed lower right by the artist Stéphane Fauchille, dream anthropologist “Would you, for a moment, like to become the Claude Lévi-Strauss of ...
Canvas, Oil
$1,400
H 27.56 in W 22.84 in D 1.19 in
Georgian Contemporary Art by Natia Sapanadze - Nameless, Faceless
By Natia Sapanadze
Located in Paris, IDF
Oil on canvas, Natia Sapanadze is a Georgian artist born in 1999 who lives & works in Tbilisi, Georgia. Natia's alternative profession is a philologist, besides she has started ...
Canvas, Oil
Tend
By Jered Sprecher
Located in New Orleans, LA
As an artist I make paintings that exist in the sliver of space between abstraction and representation. My work compresses time into the surface of painting, that old technology. Inc...
Canvas, Oil
In Color
By Jered Sprecher
Located in New Orleans, LA
As an artist I make paintings that exist in the sliver of space between abstraction and representation. My work compresses time into the surface of painting, that old technology. Inc...
Canvas, Oil
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H 18 in W 10 in
"Air Race" ” Fulfill your fantasy of high-speed air racing
By Peregrine Heathcote
Located in Scottsdale, AZ
Fulfill your fantasy of high-speed air racing in a celebrity vehicle. BIOGRAPHY Peregrine Heathcote’s paintings conjure a world of intoxicating glamour...
Canvas, Oil
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H 14 in W 18 in
"Destination Unknown" Daydream about your favorite travel.
By Peregrine Heathcote
Located in Scottsdale, AZ
Peregrine Heathcote’s paintings conjure a world of intoxicating glamour and intrigue, slipping across the boundaries of time to fuse iconic pre-war design with modern conceptions of ...
Canvas, Oil
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H 24 in W 29.5 in
"Viewfinder" As the sea glistens like diamonds, record your own memories
By Peregrine Heathcote
Located in Scottsdale, AZ
As the sea glistens like diamonds, record your own memories while motoring in your classic Mercedes. Peregrine Heathcote’s paintings conjure a world of intoxicating glamour and intr...
Canvas, Oil
"The Aeronauts"
By Peregrine Heathcote
Located in Scottsdale, AZ
Peregrine Heathcote’s paintings conjure a world of intoxicating glamour and intrigue, slipping across the boundaries of time to fuse iconic pre-war design with modern conceptions of ...
Canvas, Oil
Sold
H 36 in W 36 in
"Lift-Off!" Take a luxurious ride beside this aquamarine sea
By Peregrine Heathcote
Located in Scottsdale, AZ
Take a luxurious ride beside this aquamarine sea with the love of your life. Peregrine Heathcote’s paintings conjure a world of intoxicating glamour and intrigue, slipping across th...
Canvas, Oil
"Come Fly With Me"
By Peregrine Heathcote
Located in Scottsdale, AZ
Peregrine Heathcote’s paintings conjure a world of intoxicating glamour and intrigue, slipping across the boundaries of time to fuse iconic pre-war design with modern conceptions of ...
Canvas, Oil
"Rooftops"
By Peregrine Heathcote
Located in Scottsdale, AZ
Peregrine Heathcote’s paintings conjure a world of intoxicating glamour and intrigue, slipping across the boundaries of time to fuse iconic pre-war design with modern conceptions of ...
Canvas, Oil
"Sky Blue"
By Peregrine Heathcote
Located in Scottsdale, AZ
Peregrine Heathcote’s paintings conjure a world of intoxicating glamour and intrigue, slipping across the boundaries of time to fuse iconic pre-war design with modern conceptions of ...
Oil
Cafe Romance
By Peregrine Heathcote
Located in Greenwich, CT
A couple embracing in front of a cafe.
Canvas, Oil
Voyager
By Peregrine Heathcote
Located in Greenwich, CT
Painting of a couple near a cruise ship
Canvas, Oil
"Coastal Route"
By Peregrine Heathcote
Located in Scottsdale, AZ
In the words of poet William Butler Yeats, Peregrine Heathcote is creating “apples of the moon” for his upcoming exhibition. The internationally renowned artist thoughtfully and exp...
Canvas, Oil
"Guests"
By Peregrine Heathcote
Located in Scottsdale, AZ
In the words of poet William Butler Yeats, Peregrine Heathcote is creating “apples of the moon” for his upcoming exhibition. The internationally ...
Canvas, Oil
"Explorers"
By Peregrine Heathcote
Located in Scottsdale, AZ
In the words of poet William Butler Yeats, Peregrine Heathcote is creating “apples of the moon” for his upcoming exhibition. The internationally ...
Canvas, Oil
"Grand Tour"
By Peregrine Heathcote
Located in Scottsdale, AZ
In the words of poet William Butler Yeats, Peregrine Heathcote is creating “apples of the moon” for his upcoming exhibition. The internationally ...
Canvas, Oil
"Celebration"
By Peregrine Heathcote
Located in Scottsdale, AZ
In the words of poet William Butler Yeats, Peregrine Heathcote is creating “apples of the moon” for his upcoming exhibition. The internationally ...
Canvas, Oil