Eugene Richard Sturgeon was born in the village of Drayton, near Langport, Somerset on April 14 1920. He was the third of eight children. His love and talent for art were evident at an early age but in  1940 Dick enlisted with the Duke of Cornwall’s Light Infantryand in  1942 Dick was taken prisoner and he sketched drawings of his fellow prisoners to relieve the boredom.

At the end of the war, Dick enrolled  at Taunton Art College and this led to his first job as a commercial artist with a local newspaper.

In 1970 Dick held his first one-man exhibition and this  led to the production of a number of Limited Edition Prints. Demand for his work then grew rapidly.

Dick Sturgeon was a very popular and gifted artist. He is particularly well known for his rural village scenes. He passed away on 5th December 1999 but he was still working two or three days before his death.

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