Artist living and working in Les Matelles in the south of France. See matelles-art.com. I have been drawing as long as I can remember. My grandfather was a shop steward for years in the Pilkingtons’ glassworks in St Helens, but after he retired he went to art school every day for 30 years. He died over 20 years ago, aged 99, still a communist, determined not to get a telegram from the queen. He was and is my inspiration. I studied art and design for four years in the UK and subsequently exhibited throughout the UK and elsewhere in the...more