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Colin Moss
Green Pebble Summer 2007 issue
Painter
Colin Moss often appeared as the
epitome of a well dressed and tidy English-
man and yet, if a movie were ever made
about him, Hollywood would probably be
tempted to dress him in a beard, boots
and beret.
The
son of a shop keeper who was killed
in World War I, artist Colin Moss grew up during the aftermath of that war
in Ipswich and Plymouth. He later became a Captain in the Life Guards during
WWII.
He was a man of intellect who valued discipline, self study and application. He taught himself German, had wide literary interests, and had a passion for rugby. Most of all, he never stopped practising and honing the core of his profession - drawing.
One day
at the Royal College of Art the Registrar caught him playing table tennis
instead of attending life drawing classes. He was told, in no uncertain terms,
to get into the class and attend every day for the rest of the year, otherwise
he might be expelled. Fearful of losing his place at school he duly attended
the life drawing classes and sometimes was the only person there.
And so, like a self disciplined athlete, his daily workout began and stood
him in good stead for his future career. Indeed, in his later life, he said
of himself that he knew enough about drawing to be able to deform the human
shape and for the resulting drawing to still look correct. His confident draughtsmanship
became the bedrock of his art as well as the craft he taught to hundreds of
students in the Ipswich School of Art life room from 1947 to his retirement
in 1979....
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