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Versatile artist and potter, born in London, who did a foundation course at Kingston College of Art, 1971–2, in 1973 moving to southwest Scotland. From 1973–92 Priestman worked as a potter while painting and sculpting, from 1993 concentrating on paintings and collages. He said that what he produced was “concerned with object and space: juxtaposition. I am inspired by landscape, still-life, surface, old buildings, doorways and the patina of age. Sculpting and building with wood, concrete, stone. Heraldry and road signs.” England & Co showed Priestman’s work.

Text source: 'Artists in Britain Since 1945' by David Buckman (Art Dictionaries Ltd, part of Sansom & Company)


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