Roy Connelly is an all-weather painter, working outside throughout the year. Painting exclusively in oils by direct observation of his subject, he can usually be found working on the banks of the River Thames in central London or along the Stour Valley in Suffolk.

Since selling the first painting he ever exhibited, his pictures have been shown at the Royal Academy of Arts Summer Exhibition in London and he has been a regular exhibitor at the prestigious New English Art Club and Royal Society of British Artists.

He is an admirer of Rembrandt, Turner and the Impressionists. Creating pictures has always been an important part of his life and he travelled widely in the many years he spent as a television cameraman.

He has been painting professionally since 2004. In 2008 he was an Invited Artist at the ING Discerning Eye exhibition in London and in 2009 he won the Chelsea Art Society Award for a Painting. He is a founder member of the Plein Air Brotherhood and has written a number of articles on plein air painting for The Artist magazine.

His work can be found in private collections in the UK, US, France, Belgium and Germany.