Malcolm D B Munro

It is possible, though not proven, that abilities of whatever nature, come from our genes, passed on by parents. In my case, my mother. My mother dripped art. Her sister, whom I never met, was a concert pianist though both brothers were engineers as was their father.

My mother lived entirely in the arts world and I grew up in Edinburgh surrounded by artists of all nationalities. I remember visiting one, a painter. Long after my mother had left us, my two brothers and I visited an artist friend of hers. He was as poor as were we and he gave us bread slices covered in sugar. My father, an intellectual and self appointed scholar, had chosen not to work; defeated by the breakdown of his marriage. We went overnight from among the very wealthy in the city into genteel poverty since he had lost his job with the Royal Society of Edinburgh as a result of his withdrawal from the outside world.

This was a peculiar upbringing. What it meant for me is that I could not do anything but choose a career which guaranteed security of employment and income throughout my life. A natural choice was engineering. I spent my life in this career for which I was quite unsuited and quite alien to me but I was good at it, I am tempted to say, very, very ...

Masters in Fine Arts, University of Houston, Houston, Texas. Studied with, among others, Derek Boshier and Edward Albee. Courses in Life Drawing, Watercolour, Modern Dance, Journalism, Fundamentals of Music, Singing, and Piano at the University of Witwatersrand; Music History, Musicology, Art History, Bio-psychology, and English Literature at the University of South Africa; American Literature, and In-Class Performance of examples of Twentieth Century Music at the University of Cape Town, South Africa and Life Drawing and Art Composition at the McNay Institute, San Antonio, Texas.

Bachelor of Science in Engineering, University of Loughborough and the University of Central Lancashire.

April 3 Invited to show at The Other Art Fair, Bristol, UK, 27 - 29, 2018.

March 22 - 25 Exhibited at The Other Art Fair, Victoria House, Southampton Row,London, UK.

January 26 - March 9, 2018 Exhibitor at Open 2018 Upper Galleries, Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh, Scotland.

January 2018 Exhibiting Artist DHG Award 2018, Donut Hole Gallery,Tokyo, Japan, January 5, 2018.

December, 6 - 12, 2017 Exhibited 24th Seoul International Art Festival: Chosunilbo Museum, Seoul, Korea.

December 5 - 12, 2017 Exhibited Abstract Exhibition The Donut Hole Gallery, Michel Ando Director, .

November 2017 Invited to submit to The Other Arts Fair, Brooklyn May 6-9, 2018.

November 2017 Exhibited NOD TO MOD Dab Art H Gallery, , December 9, 2017 - February 3, 2018 Ventura, California, USA.

November 2017 Exhibited The Other Art Fair, November at the Brooklyn Arts Fair 9-12, 2017, Brooklyn, New York, USA.

October 2017 Solo show, BB1Classics Upper Gallery. Uptown Part, Galleria, Houston, Texas, USA. October 19 - 7 January, 2018.