 This is the house where I was born and where I spent the first few years of my life. The mountainous landscapes that surrounded me from an early age became forever burned into my heart.
Once we had settled in Southport I initially attended
Farnborough Road Infants school and then The artist aged 18 months old!
At school my strongest subjects were art – naturally – and
technical drawing which ultimately led me to studying towards a Higher National
Diploma in Mechanical Engineering at the age of 22. My art teacher at
Christchurch Secondary School was singularly unenthusiastic, sticking rigidly to
the syllabus and never once encouraging any of his pupils to try and expand and
develop any embryonic talents they may have had. I myself found him very
uninspiring and whatever efforts were made were never rewarded with any
criticism constructive or otherwise. Frustratingly I received no feedback at all
about my efforts from anywhere until I unknowingly met a local artist by the
name of Walkden
Fisher.
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