Reg Cartwright (b. 1938) is an English contemporary still life and landscape painter. In 1976, he became a freelance artist and began a thirty year period of book illustrating and painting. Some lavishly illustrated books included the Canterbury Tales, Mr Potter's Pigeon, Peter and the Wolf, an anthology of poetry and seven books written by his wife Ann. He has had exhibitions in London and the UK, Japan and New York. For the past seventeen years he has concentrated purely on his paintings and his work is in private and public collections around the world. Today Reg Cartwright's paintings are, as to quote Cambridge Contemporary Art ' Continuing the tradition of British Modernism. Working primarily with still life he uses familiar objects, plates, jugs, flowers to examine spatial relationships and achieves a balanced composition by flattening perspectives, omitting non-essential details and focusing on tone.'