These
prints were purchased from Motif Editions when they ceased trading and
have been stored flat in temperature controlled conditions ever since.
Michael Jeremy English was born at Bicester, Oxfordshire, on
September 5 1941 and educated at boarding school before going on to
Ealing School of Art, west London, where he studied under some of the
leading British avant garde artists of the day. After graduating in
1966, he embraced the hippy movement that was then starting to hit
London. He painted the shop fronts of two of the most famous boutiques
of the era, Hung On You and Granny Takes a Trip, both in Chelsea.
Some of the posters were used to promote gigs by bands such as Pink
Floyd, Jimi Hendrix and Soft Machine. Examples of English's work are
held by the Arts Council, the Victoria & Albert Museum, the Museum
of Modern Art in New York, the British Council, and the Victoria
and
Albert Museum, which in 2000 mounted a retrospective exhibition of his
work with Nigel Waymouth as Hapshash & the Coloured Coat.
Michael
English sadly died on September 25th 2009 aged 68.
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