Southbank Bristol Arts

Scilly Island

Training Room 4, The Harry Crook Centre, St John Ambulance, Raleigh Rd, Bedminster

I create very textured acrylic paintings and mixed-media collages using sea, landscape, flowers and nature as inspiration.

0117 9025429 07790379372 lis.art@virgin.net

Colourful watercolour and acrylic paintings of plants and animals

Mad about art as a child, Mervyn had several pictures exhibited on Adrian Hills Sketch Club on TV. He tried to get into a local printing firm’s art department upon leaving school, but ended up in the Chemical Industry as a Colour Matcher in their Laboratory instead. When made redundant (so much for ‘job for life’ as his Father had told him), he tried to become an Art Therapist, but with two small children and a large mortgage, the 5 year training seemed an impossible dream.

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This body of work, Entitled the 'Nightbreed' series, is based on Bristol night life & clubbing and some of the various characters and the situations you might find yourself in on the classic Big Night Out - Throwing your shapes on the floor, talking random to strangers, avoiding the trouble makers and getting a bit over excited. The work has previously been shown at the Tobacco Factory and as part of The Bristol Pack.

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