Creative Thinking: A Modern Artist's Notebook

Born in 1946 in Birmingham, England. Although he excelled at art in school he was considered a misfit and expelled at 15 with no formal qualifications. He was put to work on a factory production line, but, throughout this drudgery, his love of art sustained him, and he took up painting as a diversion. In 1968 he went to a retrospective exhibition of the work of the abstract expressionist artist Hans Hartung that opened his eyes to the ability of an object to provoke recall of an old inherent way of looking at the world. He walked out of his factory job and went to London but no one showed any interest in his unconventional work. After many years of struggling he moved to Whitby, North Yorkshire, to pursue his ideas in solitude.