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Graham
was born in Coventry in 1944 in the heart of the motor industry and
grew up with a passionate interest in the motor car and motor sport.
He clearly remembers the sight and sound of "C" and "D"
Type Jaguars being road-tested past his childhood home and has vivid
memories of first visits to Silverstone in the mid fifties.
After leaving school Graham trained as a Technical Illustrator at the
Coventry College of Art then joined one of the city's leading illustration
and design studios. He was engaged in all forms of line and airbrush
exploded and cutaway drawings and worked on a varied number of contracts
including motor cars and commercial vehicles, aircraft and machine tools.
After nine years, he went into partnership and formed Baron-Bosworth
Publications, an art and design studio. The studio secured contracts
from all areas of industry including power generation, motor vehicles,
machine tools, hydraulic equipment through to furniture, industrial
compressors and boat building.
Graham then worked as a freelance artist, illustrator and graphic designer
and in recent years has concentrated on painting. He likes to work in
both oils and water colour/gouache and pays much attention to technical
detail in his paintings.
His work has been exhibited at the Gibson Moore Gallery, Silverstone
Classic, Goodwood Festival of Speed, the International Historic Motorsport
Show at Stoneleigh, the Historic Car Art Gallery, the Coventry Transport
Museum, the British Motor Industry Heritage Centre, Gaydon as well as
many Guild of Motoring Artists exhibitions.
One of the highlights of Graham's career was a commission for Jaguar
Cars of the Queen Mother's Mk 7 Jaguar. This was presented to her on
her 100th birthday. Several paintings are on permanent display in The
Jaguar/Daimler Heritage Museum. Graham was the official artist commissioned
to paint the winning car in the Autoglym National Concours competitions.
Graham has undertaken commissions and sold paintings from as far a field
as Saudi Arabia to Holland, Germany and the USA and prints of his Formula
One paintings, Le Mans montages and Historic motor sport scenes are
sold worldwide.
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