Arthur (Ted) Powell is a British-born contemporary landscape/cityscape artist, printmaker, urban sketcher and advertising art director living in Melbourne Australia. He studied fine art and advertising design at Ealing College of Art in London and had an international career as an advertising art director, winning many awards for his commercial work, before venturing into painting full time.
Ted has lived and painted in major cities around the world, but it is his adopted hometown of Melbourne and the interior of Australia that are major themes in his work. His large vibrant landscapes/cityscapes painted in oil or acrylic on canvas weave cartography, geography, topography, art and history together and embody a particular way of seeing and thinking about place.
Small-scale works in pencil, crayon, charcoal, watercolour and gouache paint on paper and in concertina sketchbooks pick out details of local interest at street level. Installation, portraiture and limited edition prints on paper using traditional printmaking techniques are included in his oeuvre.
Ted has participated in over thirty solo and group exhibitions. His work is held in public and private collections in Australia and overseas, including the State Library of Victoria and City of Port Phillip collections.
