Charley Foskett

Charley Foskett was born into a working class family, living in poverty in the 1949 post World War 2 period in Newcastle Upon Tyne, England.
He wore mothball smelling hand-me-down clothes and drank tea from used jam jars - He distinctly remembers watching older children playing without shoes on bombsites - life at that time can only be described as Dickensian.

One of Charley’s earliest visual fascinations was scrutinising the wings of bluebottle flies on his grandmother's backyard wall, whilst she hung out the families ragged washing to dry in the Tyneside smog of 1952.

In 1957 he went to live with an aunt in a Victorian back-to-back terrace of which was little better than the industrial smoke blackened slums so famously illustrated in many L.S. Lowry works.

Learning difficulties made his schooling miserable, but art class was his saviour.
His first job was that of an apprentice silk screen printer and trainee sign writer, he was soon fired for creating outlandish artworks using the company’s printing inks and wasting their time and materials.

He played blues music alongside The Animals and John Lee Hooker at Tyneside’s prestigious Club A-Gogo and when the gigs were in short supply he would go out equipped with a mahl...

Post WW2 almost zero education.

Mall Galleries.

Royal academy Summer Exhibition.

Grosvenor House Exhibition

Various music industry related exhibitions and events