Growing up moving throughout Latin America he continued practicing on the new models from Detroit, then on original designs of mid-ship engine GTs. He constructed two of his original designs from sheet plastic, mounting one on a 1/18th chassis of an XJ 220 Jaguar and the other on a Lamborghini Diablo chassis. These were awarded second and first place at the Northern Virginia IMPSI modelers shows in 1996 and 1997 respectively. Knowing that he did not have the funds to build his own exotic designs he settled instead on doing paintings of the more impressive cars of his childhood and early adult years.

Today he freelances as an automotive artist and has accepted and completed many commissions form classic car owners across the country and in Canada. He is already a recognized and established American Automotive artist. He has licensing agreements with Carroll Shelby and The Auburn, Cord, Duesenberg Co., which allows him to sell reproductions of his art work with their authorization.

Rick is proud to have had a print of his work, Auburn in Asheville, represented in one of Americas most prominent automotive museums, the Auburn, Cord, Duesenberg Museum in Auburn, Indiana along with other important American automotive museums he is not at liberty to disclose on this site. Mercedes Benz commissioned the work “A Fine Day For Sailing” of a 300SL which now sits in a San Jose, California dealership.

Rick paints in acrylics and also does digital art. He loves old cars but is also an environmentalist and has begun a series of environmental paintings. This endeavor will take time, money and a strong commitment. He wishes this new direction in art to make a statement about man’s relationship with his environment and his impact on it. Each era is defined by its art and its better art conceptualizes in a more satisfactory way a current society’s place within its surroundings. Often this art is a reflection of a new view of man’s place in the scheme of things or a radical change in the physical world he occupies or the spectrum through which he views it. With this new movement Rick will be taking a risk in presenting a not always pleasant portrait but after all art requires risk taking.

Midnight On The Mulsanne Chris Phillips Web Site      Canada

Born in England, Chris pursued the art stream at high school. Already a committed car enthusiast he attended his first motor race at the now defunct Crystal Palace circuit in suburban London during the summer of 1955. Often unable to afford the admission, Chris would sit on his bicycle and watch the racing action through the fence.

When in his mid-teens the family emigrated to Canada where Chris still resides. Quitting school Chris started work in an advertising agency using the art training he had received in England. The purchase of his first car, a 1954 M.G. TF, enabled Chris to attend races at Harewood Acres, Watkins Glen, Waterford Hills and the then just opened Mosport Park in Ontario. The closure of the agency meant a job change and a weekend job at a service station became full- time. Chris acquired some useful mechanical skills and kept his hand in artistically by painting numbers on the owner's Austin Healey race car. The M.G. was replaced by a 1953 Jaguar XK120DHC, a car Chris still owns today.

The obligatory hitch-hiking tour of Europe was extended by an eighteen month stay in England. Upon returning to Canada Chris decided to go back to university as a mature student. After graduating with a BA and MA in History he commenced a ten year sojourn at a local community college, initially as an instructor and later as an administrator. The Jaguar, dormant while Chris was at university, was treated to an extensive restoration.

As a gift to a friend who had helped with the Jaguar re-build, Chris completed a painting of the winning Jaguar at that year's Daytona 24 Hours race. The friend commented: "Two things, first, you haven't lost your touch and second, you should be doing this full-time." The seed was sown and, a couple of years later, Chris quit his job and started painting on a regular basis.

Painting Antique, Classic, Sports Racing, Formula 1 and Indycars virtually exclusively, Chris is constantly enlarging his portfolio. In 1996-97 he received an Award of Merit at the Art of the Automobile competition sanctioned by the Automotive Journalists Association of Canada (A.J.A.C.). In 2002 Chris joined Vintage Racecar Journal magazine as a contributing artist. 2004 saw Chris accepted as an Associate Member of the Guild of Motoring Artists.

Chris lives in Ancaster, Ontario with his wife Karen and youngest son Adrian. When not painting he enjoys driving and maintaining his Jaguar.

Machine-Made Baron Mark Adams Web Site     Canada

With admission into the Bachelor of Fine Arts program at Sir Wilfred Grenfell College in September 2006, Mark released the "Relentless" collection of paintings. While of various themes, Mark has said that the title of the collection "represents my drive, at this time, to be more relentless with promotion and finding where my work fits in the world." November 2006 saw the creation of the poster for Theatre Grenfell's stage production of Nicholas Nickleby, Parts 1 and 2, of which Mark had designed.

Into the Winter of 2007, Mark released "Embrace catastrophe", a collection of darker, two-to-three tonal paintings with stark, perplex images. A practice of working more tonally is seen with the release of "Foward to Folklore", another painting collection released in March of 2007. Mark also made work in Digital and video art, creating {Stills} (2), a website branch for digitally manipulated images (Much like {stills} showing original photography) and "Target Audience (parts 1 & 2)" respectively.

In April 2007, Mark selected and exhibited 4 recent works in Oil and Mixed media into "123ART!", the SWGC Art Gallery Student Exhibition.