Graham Rust (born 1942, Hertfordshire, England) is a painter and muralist.
Graham Redgrave-Rust was born in Hertfordshire, England in 1942. He studied drawing and painting at the Regent Street Polytechnic School of Art, the Central School of Arts and Crafts in London and the National Academy of Art in New York. For two years he worked as an artist on Architectural Forum for Time Inc. In 1968 he spent a year as artist in residence at Woodberry Forest School, in Orange, Virginia, USA.
He is internationally renowned for his murals and ceiling paintings. His most important work is the mural "The Temptation" in the entrance hall of Ragley Hall, Warwickshire, which was started in 1969 and finished in 1983. The mural was commissioned by Lord Hertford after he had seen Rust working on a mural in Virginia, USA. The Ragley Hall mural was painted using gouache directly onto the plaster, portraying a view of the Mountain of Temptation and several of Lord Hertfords relatives.
He has illustrated various books including the 1986 edition of 'The Secret Garden', by Frances Hodgson Burnett and the 1993 edition of 'Some Flowers', by Vita Sackville-West.
He has paintings in the collections of the Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry Museum and Tabley House.
Graham Rust lives and works in Suffolk and is currently illustrating a cookery book by the late Countess of Clanwilliam, who commissioned his first mural painting in 1965.
1964 The Insituto Panameneo de Arts, Panama, Drawings1965 The Oxford Union, Drawings and Watercolours1965 The Jason Gallery, New York, Drawings1965 Duncombe Park, Yorkshire, Paintings and Drawings1969 Duncombe Park, Yorkshire, Paintings and Drawings1972 Hazlitt, Drawings London and Rome1973 Hazlitt, Autumn in Provence1975 Spink, Rust in India1976 Spink, Rust in Greece1977 Spink, The West Indies and other works1978 Lane Crawford, Hong Kong, Drawings and Watercolours1980 40 Belgrave Square and Ragley Hall, R.C.S.B. Benefit1981 Gainsborough's House, Suffolk, A Travelers Sketchbook1982 Spink, The Holy Land1985 The Alpine Gallery, London, R.C.S.B. Benefit1987 Leighton House, London, "The Painted House"1987 Roger Ramsey Gallery, Chicago1988 Stubbs Gallery, New York1989 Robert Domergue Inc., San Francisco1989 Melrose Place Gallery, Los Angeles1990 Colnaghi, London, R.C.S.B. Benefit1993 The Museum of Garden History, London1996 Raphael Valls Gallery, London1999 Marlborough House, London, Sightsavers Benefit1987 "The Painted House" Cassells / USA-Bullfinch1996 "Decorative Designs" Cassells / USA-Bullfinch1998 "Needlepoint Designs" Ward Locke / USA Rizzoli2001 "The Painted Ceiling" Constable / USA Little Brown1986 "Fruite of the Earth" Michael Joseph / USA David Godine1986 "The Secret Garden" Michael Joseph / USA David Godine1989 "A Little Princess" Michael Joseph / USA David Godine1991 "The Secret Garden Notebook" Letts1993 "Some Flowers: Vita Sackville West" Pavilion & National Trust / USA Abrams1993 "Little Lord Fauntleroy" Michael Joseph / USA David Godine1994 "The Fine Art of Dining" Little Brown2001 "Claro en la Selva" Luis Pujadas y Ortiz, Red Lion Express
