Terrence Coventry

Terence Coventry was born in Birmingham in 1938. He studied fine art at Stourbridge (1954). Having done National Service in the RAF (1959-61), he was accepted by the Royal College of Art in 1961 to study painting, but left after a year and took up farming in west Cornwall. It was not until 1985 that he began to make sculpture his major activity, triggered by the vast amount of elm wood on his land that became available for carving as a result of Dutch elm disease. It is from farming that Coventry derives most of ...