In the late 1970s, a gallery in London had a framed print of Nighthawks in the window. Theo stopped to look. He stopped every night for weeks, the lit diner, the figures who wouldn't give up their secrets, the feeling of watching a film that had no ending. The print was £150, which was a lot of money then. He bought it anyway. It was the first print he had ever bought.

Three decades later, in 2004, he stood in front of the original painting at the Tate Gallery, Hopper's first major exhibition in Britain. This time he looked at it differently. He could see the brushstrokes, the colour mixing, the technique. And he thought: I could do that. That afternoon he decided to become a painter.

He taught himself. A neighbour who painted in oils showed him the medium. Theo would sketch the composition, his neighbour would show him how to paint it. A lucky find in a second hand shop shaped his style further — an art instruction book by Andrew Loomis called Creative Illustration, out of print and worth £300, picked up for £5. The paintings in this collection are where that journey led.

Each fine art print on archival paper is individually hand signed by Theo Michael in the studio in Larnaca — a small mark that makes it entirely his, and entirely yours.

Canvas prints are produced and shipped by our print partner to ensure the highest quality reproduction. They are not hand signed.