Scott Tetlow was born in Rochdale in 1969 and showed a passion for art from childhood. In his late teens, while working as a roadie for punk bands, he filled his free time designing album covers and sketching the punk scene — work that earned him a place to study Fine Art at Cheltenham University. After graduating he quickly established himself as a promising young artist before personal tragedy struck in 2002, when a fire destroyed his studio and his entire life's work, forcing him away from painting for nearly a decade.

A move to Verona in 2011 proved the turning point. Living above an art shop reignited Tetlow's passion, and he returned to the UK to build a dedicated garden studio. His time living in Taiwan had introduced him to Chinese calligraphy — a practice in which painters speak of 'writing' a picture — and this philosophy became central to his mature style: elegant, fluid mark-making with a contemporary urban edge that bridges Eastern tradition and Western figuration.

Scott Tetlow now lives and works in the North of England and is widely recognised as one of Britain's most talented figurative painters. His originals and limited edition prints are exhibited across prestigious galleries in the UK and beyond.