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Mervyn CHARLTON


(1945.)

Mervyn Charlton was born in Essex in 1945. Always artistically driven, it took Charlton some time to identify how to channel his energy. After abandoning school at 15 to pursue a career as a professional cyclist, the romanticism of the demanding athlete lifestyle began to fade after four years and the artist-to-be found work as a layout artist in a silk-screening company. After another four-year cycle, Charlton eventually left everything behind to take up academic artistic training at the age of 27. After a two-year foundational course at Loughton Art College under the tutelage of John Danvers, he graduated from Nottingham Trent Polytechnic with a BA in Fine Art in 1980. The language he developed during that time is very personal. Drawing from myths, medieval tapestries, board games and popular folklore, his paintings are a complex flattened universe of endless imagination.

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