Sargy mann biography sample
Accomplished in maths, science, music and even sports, Sargy only turned to art during A-Levels after a friend saw his drawings and suggested he apply to Camberwell School of Arts and Crafts..
This text was written by Sargy Mann in the final weeks of his life.
A Painter's Biography
This text was written by Sargy Mann in the final weeks of his life. It was first published in the exhibition catalogue of the exhibition ‘Final Paintings’ which was at Cadogan Contemporary in June 2015, two months after the artists death.
An edited version of the piece was also published on the BBC.
When, in 1960, I went to Camberwell School of Art, at the age of 23, I encountered inspiring painter teachers, notably, Dick Lee, Euan Uglow and Frank Auerbach but also there were important others.
In their different ways, they told me that they could not teach me to draw and paint, but that through practicing drawing and painting, I would find I saw more and better, and as the years progressed I found they were right.
Although their paintings looked and were made in very different ways, they seemed to me to have something important in common, which was a commitment to some real physical subject, external to themselves, existent in the outside world