Lynn Chadwick

Lynn Chadwick was born in London in 1914. He attended the Merchant Taylors' School, Northwood, and after taking his School Certificate stayed on to study drawing, watercolour and oil painting. He was then sent to Vouvray to study French. From 1933 to 1939 he worked as an architectural draughtsman in London before volunteering for the Fleet Air Arm (1941-44). After the war he produced textile, furniture and architectural designs, and his first mobile sculpture constructed from aluminium and balsa wood was shown at a Building Trades Exhibition in 1947. He began ...