I was born in 1930 in Croydon, Surrey, of a French father and an English mother. I have been lucky to enjoy a fulltime professional painting career for 35 years. I had no formal art training but studied The Greats in London, Paris, Venice etc. in galleries and museums. When I was 40, I had my first painting accepted at The Royal Academy Summer Exhibition. It sold at preview and The Trafford Gallery, Mount Street, London, offered to show my work. Two years later they gave me a oneman show and four paintings were bought by a rich American entrepreneur, Mr Hank Ginsberg. His wife ran an Interior Design Consultancy and wanted more of my works to place in the homes of other Americans living in London. They gave me a two year contract to paint 72 pictures; some to go into their own homes and galleries in the USA and some to clients. However, I shall never forget my first visit to their penthouse apartment in Curzon Lodge; I saw four of my paintings hanging with works by Renoir, Vlamink, Degas and Rodin I can still hardly believe it; and I cannot imagine that they could still be in such august company I continued to show at the Trafford and later with the Madden Gallery, just off Grosvenor Square and at The Business Art Gallery, Burlington House, Piccadily. I also had exhibitions in many other galleries throughout the country. Thus I was able to establish a painting career. I am an oil colour painter of churches, cathedrals, castles, landscapes, nearabstracts and the sea. I particularly enjoy working in France and Venice as well as this country.

Address: John Lacoux, 2 Oast Cottages, Willow Lane, Paddock Wood, Tonbridge, Kent TN12 6NL
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