Artist Stephen Hamilton invokes a Yoruba proverb when he talks about his work: “We greet the cloth before we greet the person ...

Origins: Artist Stephen Wiltshire is, as described in the biography on his web site: [A]n artist who draws and paints detailed cityscapes. He has a particular talent for drawing lifelike ...

His second word was "pen." He's been drawing ever since. SLIDESHOW: Stephen Wiltshire's drawings. In 1987, at the age of 12, Wiltshire became an international phenomenon when the BBC took him to ...

Still, as a child, Stephen could sketch stunningly accurate images of wildlife and caricatures of his teachers. Later he began drawing the buildings he was seeing around London with impressive detail.

Steven Parrino, an art star of the 1980s ... The artist, who was rarely seen without a leather jacket, had said he came of age when “the word on painting was ‘Painting Is Dead,’” but ...