“The story of my emergence as a painter is a life story which I suspect is an analogy of the lives of so many other people whose vocation was only realised in later life and therefore whose skill, trade, gift or talent to which that they were physically or mentally best acquitted was only developed late in life when their circumstances were conducive or their calling was stumbled upon accidentally.

I attribute this syndrome to a culture of capitalism wherein its citizens were once reproduced as fodder for industry which only paid lip service to artistic endeavour in education.

As a child of 10years I painted my bedroom walls; forty years later I picked up a brush at Shipley College and began to learn watercolour technique and I accidentally became an artist. I am now immersed in all the conventional activities of a professional artist.”                    

                                                                          Philip Knaggs

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