Graham Redgrave-Rust was born in Hertfordshire, England in 1942. He studied drawing and painting at the Polytechnic School of Art, Regent Street, also 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. He first exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1965. Since then he has been painting in Europe, North and South America, India, Greece, North Africa and the Far East. In 1968 he spent a year as artist in residence at Woodberry Forest School, Virginia, USA.

He is internationally renowned for his murals and ceiling paintings which can be found in houses in Britain, Europe, America, North Africa, The Middle and Far East - the most spectacular of these, "The Temptation" at the Ragley Hall, Warwickshire, took over a decade to complete. Twenty years later, in 1988 his collection of mural designs was published as 'The Painted House', now printed in four languages. This was followed by 'Decorative Designs' published 1998 and 'The Painted Ceiling', published 2001.

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 first exhibited his drawings of London and Rome at the Hazlitt Gallery in 1971 and subsequently exhibited paintings from his travel overseas, with Spink & Son and latterly Colnaghi.

He lives and works in Suffolk and has had twenty four one-man exhibitions including four in aid of the Royal Commonwealth Society for the Blind. Graham is currently illustrating a cookery book by the late Countess of Clanwilliam, who commissioned his first mural painting in 1965.