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Gerald Coulson Gerald
Coulson is a man who has never had an art lesson is his life and yet has created
an international reputation as an artist of infinite sensitivity.
His talent is such that he has the ability to create an image on canvas
of aircraft in flight which leaves the viewer with a feeling that he could fall
into the picture. Born
in a village in Warwickshire, his was not an exceptionally artistic family,
although his father was a designer and cabinet maker. Gerald's first consuming interest was not art but aircraft.
To him they were the most beautiful of all man-made creations and he
studied them at every opportunity. He
served eight years in the Royal Air Force and during this period he had ample
opportunity to study his beloved aircraft, their line and form, seeing the
'light' softening, hardening, sharpening, breathing life into metal and fabric
but not yet into the canvas that he would one day use as a foundation for his
exceptional talent. Following
his service in the RAF he joined British European Airways as an Aircraft
Engineer at London Airport, the four years he spent there proving invaluable to
him. Shortly
after leaving London Airport to take up a technical illustrating post, the long
awaited opportunity presented itself for him to learn to fly, and where he had
found oil painting a difficult challenge, flying was just the opposite.
It came naturally and he made his first solo in under four hours.
This was accomplished in a de Havilland Tiger Moth - "a real
aeroplane with an open cockpit". Since
that unforgettable experience many years ago he has been fortunate to have flown
a number of different types of aircraft, for different reasons, and of course it
became a valuable asset with regard to his aviation paintings. When
eventually some of his work was accepted to be published as fine art prints, and
were well received by the trade, he decided to take the big step and began to
paint for a living. The
Fine Art Guild polls have rated him into the 'Top Ten Best Selling Artists' no
less than eleven times - three times as number one. This record, never previously achieved, unquestionable
elevates Gerald to one of the world's foremost landscape and aviation artists.
He now lives and works in a quiet village in Hertfordshire.
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