Jeremy Waller is the owner of Primavera.

Jeremy Waller is passionately interested in the development of British art and creative writing since very early times. Primavera owns an impressive collection of early artefacts and jewellery from Iron Age times. Please ask the gallery staff to arrange for an appointment to view these.

Jeremy Waller also owns and directs First Edition Translations Ltd. For example one of its many contracts is with Rebo Publishers who have published the Gallery of Great Painters series including Rembrandt and Degas.

At First Edition (www.firstedit.co.uk) one can view many of the books which Jeremy and his team have worked on in Cambridge. Some of these are displayed at the Charles Lamb gallery on the first floor at King's Parade (where Charles Lamb lived for a time). Customers can sense the mystery of one of our greatest poets and essayists, imagining Charles Lamb thinking and writing in front of one of the original beautiful early C18 fireplaces.

Were Jeremy Waller not to purchase outright most of the jewellery and artwork on display at Primavera, artists could not afford to let Jeremy have the work at prices which are discounted, compared to those at which artists sell directly on the Internet, at fairs and at shows.

Note the prices paid by Jeremy Waller still allow artists to profit from their creativity whilst also allowing Jeremy to add sufficient mark-up to cover rent, rates and staffing.

Prices therefore reflect artist prices. They are not inflated 'gallery' prices.

Jeremy Waller studied history at Emmanuel College Cambridge. He also gained a place at St Martins to study Art and at the Middle Temple where he studied law.

After working in London for 5 years, Jeremy Waller ACMA, as an engineering accountant, went to live in the Lebanon in 1980 and was based in Beirut during the civil war and the Israeli invasion. The arts flourished in Beirut despite the conflict. Much of Jeremy's desire to help artists originates from this time.

Jeremy then went to live in Paris, where he met his wife Sheila. Together they went to live in Nairobi, Kenya in 1985, where their three sons were born. Their eldest son, Anthony Waller is now at SOAS studying Chinese and Korean. Nicholas Waller is at Durham University. Horatio Waller is at The Leys School in Cambridge.

Jeremy Waller's younger brother, Martin Waller, owns Andrew Martin based in Walton Street London. Both Jeremy and Martin Waller, in their different ways, seek to explore the best of creative arts throughout the world - Jeremy concentrating on British art.

Jeremy's career history is as follows:

1999 - ...   Owner and Director, Primavera, Cambridge, UK.
1997 - ...   Owner and Non Executive Director, First Edition, Cambridge, UK
1995-6       International Director, Thyssen, Aufzuge GmbH, Germany
1987-1994  Owner and Managing Director, Otis - East African Elevator
                 Company, Nairobi, Dar es Salaam.
1987-1992  Managing Director, Otis - ZAL Elevators, Lusaka
1985-7       Managing Director, Otis Elevator Company, Nairobi, Dar es
                 Salaam, Lusaka.
1983-5       Manager- Planning and Reporting, Otis Elevator Company,
                 European and Transcontinental Operations, Paris.
1980-3       Financial Manager, Otis Elevator Company, Beirut.
1974-80     Worked for Schlumberger (oil exploration), Petters diesel engines,
                 Olympus (cameras) and then Commercial Accountant at Babcock Power.

Primavera is a beautiful gallery with its own tiny garden. Jeremy Waller, Primavera’s five members of staff and customers draw huge inspiration from the beautiful surroundings, ancient history and vibrant student life in Cambridge.