John trickett biography
John trickett biography
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Although always inclined towards painting, on leaving school John Trickett started to train as an accountant. An offer to play football professionally soon diverted him and he spent some time playing for Torquay before turning to painting full-time.
Totally self-taught, on his first meeting with his agent he said he had been to art school.
On his second meeting in the presence of his wife, his agent asked which art school he had been to. His wife exclaimed, ‘Oh, John, you didn’t say you’d been to art school, you were only there for a morning, you left at lunchtime!’
Despite having to learn the hard way with no help, he was soon painting very acceptable paintings and has now established himself as a very fine all-round artist, equally at home painting animal portraits, birds, the sea or landscapes and genre pictures.
The Shooting Times acclaimed him ‘The Greatest Painter of Black Labradors in England if not the world’ in a two-page article a