English artist Geoffrey Huband was born in Worcestershire in 1945, and studied at Stourbridge College of Art and Victoria College, Manchester University. On leaving college he taught, but in 1970 he moved to Cornwall to paint full-time, and found in its rugged, maritime beauty the inspiration for paintings, which are now commissioned internationally. Huband, who lives and paints in in the small village of Marazion, is known for his cover art on the novels of Douglas Reeman and Alexander Kent. As a student in the 1960’s, he came to admire painters of the Newlyn School, who depicted day-to-day subjects in the fishing villages of Cornwell, as well as Montague Dawson for his “style and directness.” Huband’s work embodies naval scenes from the Age of Sail and the Second World War, as well as the seascapes and maritime communities of far southwest England