YOLANDA GRAY

Yolanda Gray started her career by teaching English, art & sciences for several years at a Secondary School. She inherited her interest and love of antiques and paintings from both her families. Prior to World War II, her father trained as an engineer and sculptor in Antwerp, whilst his father, a sub-mariner Captain, produced excellent sea scapes and floral silk paintings.

Yolanda’s maternal great Grandfather, John Abernethy Lynas-Gray (1869 – 1940) along with his daughters were acclaimed landscape and genre artists who frequently exhibited in major art galleries such as: Royal Society of Artists Birmingham, Walker Art Gallery Liverpool, Manchester City Art Gallery, Manchester City Art Gallery, Royal Cambrian Academy and the Royal Hibernian Academy. He was also in the Royal Institute of Painters in Watercolours. He Exhibited between 1897 – 1928.

Yolanda has dealt in fine art and antique furniture since 1975 and has great experience of interior design and supplying all types of antique furniture depending on customers’ requirements. Yolanda has a special interest in colonial Anglo Indian furniture, specifically four poster beds (to view our collection of beds, please click here).

Yolanda’s two younger sons each have established online furniture retail companies (The Furniture Market and Grosvenor Beds).

JULIAN LATHAM

Julian Latham, Yolanda’s eldest son, joined her in the antique business several years ago, after a successful career in commercial retail in Africa, London and America.  Julian, who has grown up from an early age surrounded by antiques at home, has developed a keen interest in art and antique furniture, and has decided to make this passion his career.  Julian has taken the antiques knowledge passed on from his parents, to help take the business forward and share his love for antiques with a new generation.