Jethro Buck

Jethro Buck was born in 1986 in Oxford, United Kingdom. He completed an Art Foundation year at Abingdon and Witney College in 2003, then a BA in Fine Art at Falmouth College of Arts from 2005 to 2008. After university he worked as a teaching assistant and technician, and served as Artist in Residence, at St Edward's School in Oxford.

In 2012, supported by an INTACH grant, Buck traveled to Jaipur, Rajasthan, and apprenticed for several months under the master Indian miniaturist Ajay Sharma. He then enrolled at The Prince's School of Traditional Arts in London, now The King's Foundation School of Traditional Arts, supported by a Farjam scholarship, completing an MA in Traditional Arts in June 2014. He graduated with the Ciclitira Prize for his degree show, presented by the then Prince of Wales.

Since 2014 Buck has held a series of solo exhibitions, most consistently through Crane Kalman Gallery in London, which handles enquiries for his paintings. His work has also been shown and sold through Jenny Blyth Fine Art in Oxford. He continues to live and work as an active painter, with a solo show opening at Crane Kalman Gallery in October 2025.

Coverage of Buck in art press and gallery texts, including profiles in Beshara Magazine and elsewhere, consistently frames him around the discipline of his training: years of formal study in Western fine art followed by a hands-on apprenticeship in Indian miniature technique under a recognized master, then a further master's degree in traditional arts. Writers describe his paintings, built from hand-ground natural pigments and gold leaf, as using a centuries-old craft vocabulary to address contemporary subjects such as biodiversity loss and rewilding. No verbatim, attributable critic quotation from a major outlet could be confirmed for this profile, so none is reproduced here.

Buck's market is gallery-driven rather than auction-driven, and public sale data is thin. The one documented auction result in the research record is Soaring (for Kettle's Yard), sold at Sotheby's Contemporary Day Auction in London on 25 June 2026 as part of a benefit sale for Kettle's Yard. It carried a presale estimate of GBP 8,000 to 12,000 and sold for GBP 83,200 (reported as approximately USD 109,800), roughly ten times its estimate. Outside that single result, his paintings are sold privately through Crane Kalman Gallery, and his work is also shown and sold through Jenny Blyth Fine Art in Oxford. There is no catalogue raisonne and no confirmed museum collection holding his work.

Buck's market is small and concentrated: nearly all documented sales run through Crane Kalman Gallery rather than the auction room, and the single confirmed auction result, at roughly ten times its estimate, is too small a sample to indicate a trend. There is no catalogue raisonne, so provenance and authenticity for his paintings rest on the artist's own studio and his primary gallery. No major public museum collection could be confirmed as holding his work as of this profile's data date, which should be treated as an open question rather than a settled absence.