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orn in Southern England,
my love of drawing really
Bbegan in my late teens. I
had left school at 15 years of age to
start an apprenticeship as a carpenter
and joiner, and remember while
attending technical college drawing
classes, which were a part of my
apprenticeship, being told that I would
make a better draftsman than carpenter.
By my early 20s I was married and
during one particular rainy holiday,
my wife Dot and I took a caravan
in Norfolk England, and with no
television or other comforts, we
would venture out between showers
and during one of our trips I bought
a Broadlands Sketchbook which
I still treasure today. This book
inspired me to go out and sketch, a
passion that has only grown over the
years since that damp, grey skied
holiday focused my attention and
made me look at the world from an
artistic composition point of view.
Although I now have my own
studio and was recently elected to
the Western Australian Water Colour

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