Grand Hotel Brighton Print

My work spans over three decades when I started painting in the early seventies. The early paintings are of the Medway towns where I met the Medway poets who included among others Billy Childish, Sexton Ming, Charles Thompson, Chris Dyer and the artist Helga Windle I have been largely self-taught but was lucky enough to meet and be taught by the late visionary artist Donald Pass I then completed a foundation course at Medway College of Design During the early eighties my friend artist, sculptor Stephen Postgate spent some time working together in Wales where we shared his father's cottage in Llandeilo we painted together sharing ideas, dole cheques, tomato paste flapjacks, beer and canvas Later in London we lived in various squats around Westbourne park, Latimere road and Notting hill gate we continued painting large scale canvases using paint taken from skips, powder paint mixed with washing up liquid and sized with wallpaper paste on calico miraculously some of this work has survived and is in remarkably good condition. Later on we settled in rented accommodation "The Old School House 192 Shepherds Bush Road" where Stephen shared his life and flat with artist Sara Grisewood and we meet the late great painter Diane Minnis. It was here I met my future wife Amanda Durston we lived in London until 1999 when we removed to Brighton. From 1996 till 2008 I had painting pictures of a religious subject matter. Since then I have painted numerous paintings of Brighton I also paint portraits, self-portraits and lately a deceased family dog called spider in various media including work on my iPad. Most of all I prefer the putrefying fecundity of oil paint.
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