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Growing up in Sydney in the 1950's, my art education began through art in books, van Gogh, Cezanne, Goya, El Greco. This was supplemented by the occasional visit to that Victorian edifice, the Art Gallery of NSW - before the extension - seeing Streeton, Dobell and others, in the flesh. Later odd things like Gilbert and George who were weirdly fascinating, and Christo wrapping Little Bay.
However it was paint that fascinated me, it was a purely visceral relationship, the smell and feel and the mystery of creating a tactile world on a flat surface.
