Gareth Cadwallader was born in 1979, Swindon, UK. He lives and works in London. Cadwallader is known for being a miniaturist painter of Realist portals: banal and familiar scenes that exist outside of specific space and time, held at a point of electric tension by neurotically rigorous formal consideration. Cadwallader studied at the Royal College of Art and Slade School of Fine Art, London, and Hunter College, New York.