Madeleine de St Pierre Bunbury

Madeleine de St Pierre Bunbury was born in 1995 on the Island of Mustique in the West Indies. She was educated in Dorset but left school aged 17 and moved straight to Florence where she was a student of Charles Cecil’s for three years.

Under the expert guidance of Charles and his other teachers she learned the traditional style of painting from life under natural light. She also traditional methods of grinding paints from pigments and preparing and stretching canvases and continues using these techniques to achieve the highest quality of work which will last forever. Madeleine moved back to Dorset where she has her studio and now travels round the country painting life size portraits of horses, always from life.