Victoria Keeble
I have drawn from a very early age (even on the fly pages of my father's valuable first editions - much to his horror) and following a childhood in Cornwall and education in Oxford, I trained as a textile designer at Falmouth School of Art. I worked in the textile industry for the United Turkey Red Company, and later designed kaftans and shirts for Mr Fish of Clifford Street, as part of the 1960s ‘Peacock Revolution’ in men’s fashion design. I began silk painting in the late 1970s as an extension of my textile background, the brilliant dye colours suiting my highly decorative style, which typically features animals, birds and mythical beasts. In the 1980s, I began printmaking and studied at Hereford College of Art, West Dean College and the Sidney Nolan Trust.
