Piers Midwinter's visionary art is unique and spontaneous. He quite literally creates every aspect of his artwork from start to finish. He is primarily interested in creating his own world. His work is bold, colourful, intelligent and imaginative. He has been painting for over 15 years and has an extensive portfolio. He has exhibited his artwork in many different countries. He is now an established and well respected international self-taught artist. He currently lives in Rochester, Kent, U.K. Piers Midwinter is the creator and director of Raw Art Link and the Raw Arts Festivals. He believes that it's important to stay true to oneself as an artist and that Raw Art (Outsider/Self-taught/Visionary art etc.) comes closest to expressing this. Midwinter has been interested in Raw Art since 1989 and in 2001 he set up Raw Art Link in order to create a website which contained links to all the things that interested him. It was probably the first web portal dedicated to such a task. Since then it has become one of the world's premier Raw Art websites leading to setting up events like the first Raw Arts Festival in 2004 (http://www.rawartsfestival.co.uk) that became London's largest and best International exhibition of self-taught art mounted to date. Midwinter is currently planning a 2005 Raw Arts Festival in London (http://www.raf2005.co.uk).