Richard Knight - Knight began his career working as a picture cataloguer with Phillips Auctioneers in 1970 before branching out as a dealer from 1973 until 1984, while also studying and practising painting conservation. In 1984 he joined P&D Colnaghi & Co. as a director. In 2004 Christie's acquired their companies and appointed them to the Board as Joint International Directors in the Old Master Picture Department, and Knight became Co-Chairman of Old Masters and 19th Century Art in 2012. He has also formerly served on the Executive Committee of the Society of London Art Dealers and twice as Joint Chairman of the Executive Committee of the European Fine Art Foundation (TEFAF Maastricht).

Kieran Stiles - Art Gallery owner Kieran Stiles Art Studios. Trained at Falmouth School of Art, and since has had over 20 solo exhibitions and 30 selected group exhibitions in the UK, including many collections of work held internationally. He has maintained his connection with Cornwall and continually returns there to paint. His exuberant and evocative abstractions of rugged coastland, are expressions of his sense of place. Kieran also owns an Art Gallery in central Oxford, where he is known as a passionate tutor of painting and drawing. 

Esther Lafferty - Festival Director of Oxfordshire Artweeks, the country’s most well established open studios event with over 400 exhibitions and events across the county during May each year. Esther started life as a publisher and event organiser before setting her sights on the art world in which she, to her delight, she has been increasingly engulfed. She contributes regular Art Features for OX magazine and her writing can be spotted elsewhere in the local media.