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    A Love For Realism

    Oct 18, 2020 5 minutes
    By Wayne Phillip

    I was born 55 years ago in a small country town in NSW. I’m a great husband (according to my wife), a wonderful father (according to me) and a realist artist. I am now happily married and living on the beautiful Central Coast of NSW. From as long as I could remember I was interested in drawing and sketching, usually filling up my school books with cartoons, to the dismay of my parents, instead of Maths or English. My hard work paid off when I won an art prize in Primary School. It was not quite the academic award my parents would have like me to have received, although they were still proud.

    In High School I chose Art and Technical Drawing as electives, but in Senior High School I had the opportunity to only continue with one of these electives so I

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