Graham Pope

A lifelong amateur artist and art collector, now retired, I now have more time for painting. Following in the footsteps of my artist mother who went to Camberwell School of Art and grandfather who moved to Paris to paint, I have built up quite a large portfolio some of which I have picked out to show patrons of the Saatchi Gallery.

I went to the Haberdasher's Aske's School in ,London until age 16 when I got a scholarship to study in the States. Graduated from Westside High,Omaha and then studied for a business degree at Hastings College,Nebraska.
Returned home to London, was called-up for the army, passed through Mons Officer Cadet School and joined the newly formed Army Air Corps and was put in charge of air traffic control at an army airfield in Hildesheim, Germany.
This triggered my lifelong love of flying.I only gave up my pilot's licence a few years ago due to old age and the soaring cost of private flying in U.K.

I do not submit to exhibitions as I really only paint for my own enjoyment but one or two collectors do buy my work.