Graham Sendall was born in 1947.
In the mid sixties he studied graphic design at West Sussex College of Art.
Leaving a career in advertising seven years ago he now paints stylised-realist
scenes of his village and the surrounding area, a land of allotments, chapels,
follies, country signs and red telephone boxes. Being almost always
unpeopled it gives them a ‘something is about to happen’ quality. They’re
peaceful, almost too peaceful.
There is an idealism about his work, though none of it is premeditated.
He has been shortlisted several times for the Sunday Times watercolour
competition. In 2006 he was a prize winner with “The Big Tree’.
Art critic Frank Whitford wrote of this painting “what struck the
judges about this prizewinning picture was the nostalgia it sharply evokes.
It looks like a view of part of an English village, so perfect it couldn’t exist.
------the painting certainly makes the ordinary seem extraordinary”
