Trevor winkfield biography of williams

British-born artist and writer (born 1944)

Trevor Winkfield (born 1944) is a British-born artist and writer.

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Drawing upon his interest in both modernist literary movements and medieval architecture and pageantry, Winkfield has collaborated with many contemporary poets and writers, including John Ashbery, Harry Mathews, James Schuyler, and Ron Padgett.

Early life

Born in Leeds, England in 1944, Winkfield had an early interest in medieval heraldry and pageantry that had a major influence on his later work.

As a teenager, Winkfield began making what he called "pilgrimages" by bicycle and bus to see single works of art, including works by Francis Bacon and Kurt Schwitters. At the age of sixteen, Winkfield enrolled at Leeds College of Art, which he has described as "a second kindergarten, with no classes to attend (or at least very few) ...

everyone was very friendly, a real community."^[1] Winkfield has described himself as a "self-taught" painter, v Trevor Winkfield - Artists - The Tibor de Nagy Gallery, carousel ROG