Jeanette Barnes and Paul Brandford have taught drawing for three decades, during that time they have between them worked for a range of art institutions including the Royal Academy of Arts, The Royal Drawing School, the Courtauld, and the NSEAD. As practicing artists they have exhibited widely and won major prizes in the field of drawing, although their own works are particularly distinct from one another's they share a similar grounding to drawing which can be traced back to their art educations in the 1980s.

Jeanette Barnes, known for her urban sketching, was awarded the Henry Moore Scholarship in 1984 and 1987-90, the Richard Ford Spanish Scholarship in 1987 and was the Jerwood Drawing 2004 prize winner. In 2006 Jeanette was accepted to exhibit in the Royal Academy Summer Show in London at the Royal Academy of Arts in London. Her work is held in public and private collections in the UK, Austria, Germany and the USA.