Barrington Barber is the world's best-selling practical art author. He practised as an illustrator (Saxon Artist) and Graphic Designer, was Art Director at Ogilvie & Mather and S.H. Bensons, and then a lecturer in Graphic Design at Ealing Art School. He has also worked as a freelance designer, illustrator and animator and as a painter. He was awarded a one-man exhibition at St. Oswald Studios. He now paints, draws and writes about art.