Stephen Wiltshire

Nicknamed The Living Camera, Stephen Wiltshire is a talented artist who accurately draws and paints detailed cityscapes completely from his photographic memory. Stephen has an amazing ability where he can view panoramas briefly, and precisely draw intricate details, as if they were blueprints of reality.

In 2009, he continued to draw landscapes and cityscapes. He's drawn everything from the city of London to Tokyo, Japan, completely from memory. His most valued work sells for as much as £150,000, which is a painting of Times Square at night (oil on board). Stephenwiltshire.co.uk: Times Square at night (oil on board) In 2006 Stephen was awarded an MBE for services to the art world. His work has been featured in museum collections, and has made him a famous artist worldwide.

At age three he was diagnosed as autistic, and didn't speak as a child until he turned five when he attended the Queensmill School in London where he became passionate about drawing. In school Stephen communicated primarily through his drawings of animals, London buses, and buildings.

When Stephen turned eight, he started to draw cityscapes and became obsessed with drawing classic American cars, and would draw London landmarks.Stephenwiltshire.co.uk: Stephen Wiltshire Bio

Stephen has produced 3 books:

1. Cities (J.M. Dent & Sons, London, 1989)
2. Floating Cities (Summit Books, New York, 1991) which became a bestseller in England and featured his drawings of Amsterdam, Venice, Leningrad, and Moscow.
3. Stephen Wiltshire's American Dream (Michael Joseph, London, 1993) which focused on U.S. architecture and desert landscapes in Arizona.