Julian Merrow-Smith is a British painter living in Provence in the South of France. His paintings have been exhibited in Britain, France and the United States and he has been selected for both the New Contemporaries exhibition at the Institute of Contemporary Art, London and the BP Portrait Award at the National Portrait Gallery. An accomplished portrait painter@ A short essay on how to commission
a portrait or painting, Julian Merrow-Smith regularly exhibits with the Royal Society of Portrait Painters in London.

Based near Crillon le Brave@ A little about the village of
Crillon le Brave, a tiny Provençal hill village at the foot of the Mont Ventoux, his luminous paintings of the provençal landscape and his intimate still life paintings of faïence, fruit and bottles are much sought after and are held in numerous private collections worldwide. Julian's strong reputation as a still life painter led, in 2003, to a commission by Cunard @ See the still life commissions for
Cunards Queen Mary 2 for a series of large-scale still-life paintings and a further three editions of landscape prints for the Queen Mary 2.

In February 2005 Julian started Postcard from Provence, a daily painting project at http://shiftinglight.com @ Shifting Light | Postcard from Provence
A painting a day: daily paintings from Julian Merrow-Smith's
studio in Provence. The ongoing project has received international acclaim, being featured in The New York Times, The London Times, USAToday and The Sunday Telegraph.