Godfried van Utrecht (born 1951) studied at the Rietveld Academy in Amsterdam, from 1971 till 1976.

In the years after his schooling he gained publicity through his realistic, labour intensive drawings and oil-paintings. His paintings remind us of work by Willink and Koch, yet here and there we see some of Moesman's atmospheric techniques.

Godfried took part in an impressive amount of expositions in his native country and abroad. Two of these were in America.

After a period of producing more expressive work, he finally chose a notably more illustrative approach in realizing his ideas. His research into less time
consuming techniques and styles went on. This gave Godfried the ability to diversify his work.

Apart from being an artist, he works as a freelance illustrator and designer. In 1994 he began working as a teacher, teaching subjects such as Visualisation and Life Drawing, at the School of Graphic Design in Utrecht (Grafisch Lyceum Utrecht).