Portrait Artist

Portrait artist Roger Simpson was born in a small town called Earlsheaton in West Yorkshire England and as a child of around ten years old all he wanted to do was to draw things and doodle on bits of paper. Even at school he was always doodling instead of learning maths or some other subject. Often his father would say to him that he had golden hands and that he should go to college and learn to be an artist.

Later on in life he took his father's advice and off to college he went but after a few weeks he left, all he wanted to do was to draw and paint, I had to do collages and pattern making and this was something I didn't really want to do. So he decided to go to night school where there were life drawing and painting classes and one such college was at Batley, where he was there for two years and learnt quite a lot there like form and structure of the body, he then moved on to Dewsbury art college which suited Roger better because it was larger and a bit more freer to do what he wanted to do which was to draw and paint the human form, he was there for three years, He loves to draw and paint the human form or drawing someone's portrait, he also goes out into the countryside whenever he can to draw and paint.

Portrait artist Roger never bothered taking any exams both at Batley and at Dewsbury simply because he wasn't interested in them, all he wanted to do was to draw and paint and later after leaving Dewsbury college he started exhibiting his work at local art galleries and managed to sell quite a few. In 1977 a gentleman bought a drawing for twenty pounds from a local art gallery of His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales which Roger had drawn and he was quite pleased with this because it was the first portrait that he had ever sold.

A word from Roger,,,I think it is good to read books on art, I used to go into libraries quite a lot and read books over and over again to get the information I needed into my head. It is also good to practice, practice and practice if you want to make it out there, there is no other way.......

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