PHILIP COPESTAKE ART

I am an artist and printmaker now based in South Yorkshire with a studio just north of Sheffield. I worked for a number of years from a studio in south west London. I have always been passionate about my art and have drawn and painted on a regular basis throughout my life... Although I have had no formal art education [my secondary schooling regarding the idea of pursuing art as some sort of joke], I began seriously to take to drawing and painting in my thirties - a ‘mid-life crises' (maybe?); it's never too late... Perhaps somewhat obsessively self-taught, over the years I have had input and insight from a wide range of inspiring artists and teachers through attending courses and classes at or with: The Art Academy (London), Central Saint Martins, CityLit, Edinburgh Printmakers, Fielders (of Wimbledon), Heatherley's School of Fine Art, Leicester Print Workshop, London Drawing, SCOLA, The Slade, St Ives School of Painting, and Wimbledon College of Art.