Michael Stanger, London, UK

Night Thoughts

Fantasy Scrap Yard

Building Survey

Fantasy Building Site

River Thames

Painting Bowls of Flowers

Still Life - Day Class

Art Class, Whitechapel

Summer Forest Clearing

Autumn

Whitechapel Landscape

I was born in 1951. I trained as an architect at what is now Kingston University but which was then known as Kingston Art School, from 1969. I have, however, been painting from infancy and most particularly during my teens and throughout the 1990s, when I took an Art degree at John Cass Art School (Now London Metropolitan University).
I always work from my imagination, drawing from life and sometimes taking an image from Art History just to start my paintings off. Once the painting starts, the original image is discarded and the painting paints itself. Colour is often the driving force. I have never considered myself to be an academically correct architect, nor ever attempted to produce photographic realism. Since I have received little formal art education - other than evening classes - before the age of 40, I consider himself to be largely self-taught.

Michael Stanger Feb 2004

Michael Stanger's Gallery