Assistant Curator, Blandford Museum
Following art college and some years teaching and lecturing he was eager to sell his paintings. The Portal Gallery in central London took him on in 1966. It has represented him ever since, with exhibitions in Europe and the U.S., sent him around the world to work for an exhibition of the Grand Hotels of the Worlds, and sold to public and private collections. He now has another audience to please closer to home - those who visit the Blandford Town Museum. The work for the museum is more in the nature of arranging and painting installations requiring a very different approach from easel painting, but each feeds and stimulates the other. Which is good.
Carolyn Martin
Assistant Curator, Blandford Museum
Carolyn came down to Dorset in 2006 with husband Dan and lives in Milborne St Andrew. Equipped with a history degree from The Open University and using her computer skills, she is completing the catalogue of museum artefacts using the MODESplus computer package.
This has entailed checking the lists of the many thousands of items on show and in the store. She is also much involved in building the new museum displays.