Jonathan Wolstenholme (born 1950) is a British artist and illustrator.
Wolstenholme was born in 1950, and was educated at Purley Grammar School, before graduating from Croydon Art College, which he attended from 1969 to 1972.[1]
Wolstenholme has been a freelance illustrator for many years, working for leading advertising agencies, publishers and a huge number of magazines.[1] [2]
He has had several one-man shows in London, and has exhibited at the Singer and Friedlander Exhibition several times, and also at the Discerning Eye Competition at the Mall Galleries, winning the main £3,000 ING Purchase Prize in 2002.[3] In 1997, an exhibition of Wolstenholme's work was shown in New York City at the "Works on Paper" fair.[1]
Wolstenholme is known for his amazingly detailed works deriving from a love of old books and of the paraphernalia associated with a bygone age whose hallmarks were finely skilled labour and exquisite craftsmanship in the production of all manner of objects.[1]
In 2017, his work has sold at Christie's auction house, as part of The Astor Collection from Tillypronie, Aberdeenshire,[4] which The Daily Telegraph described as "the best collection" of sporting art "that will ever come on to the market".[5]
Wolstenholme is married, with two children, and lives in London.[1]