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Tim's childhood and early teenage years were lived in a large and poorly heated Victorian vicarage on the edge of Cambridge. Post-war rationing and necessary frugality were softened with gratitude for still new peace and the sacrifices of his parents' generation. Early optimism that war must not happen again
was only gradually dispelled by global events. Meanwhile he and his brother were blessed with family solidarity and their father's security of employment. His modest clergy salary was supplemented by fruit, honey and vegetables from an acre of garden.
Tim's schooling was largely unhelpful but alternative education was supplied by summer vacations camping near the East Anglian coast. Hence his certainty that childhood is best served first by love rather than pedagogical dictatorship; second by time to roam in countryside.
His formal learning began when he abandoned sixth form studies to enter art schools, since when he has advocated art education for its remedial, rebalancing and constructive missions.
He was a student at Cambridge School of Art and Nottingham College of Art and Design before postgraduate studies at the Slade School of Fine Art, U.C.L., London.
For nine years he lectured at Glasgow School of Art before returning to Cambridge to lecture in the Technical College and then at Cambridge Regional College.
Throughout that time he worked as a printmaker and mural artist, contributing to exhibitions in U.K., U.S.A. Germany France and Japan.
In the 1980s and 90s he wrote and illustrated two books for Tarquin Publications on the principles of pattern and colour. Both interests remain with him and still influence his creative activities.
From 1996 - 99 he retrained in architectural glass at Central Saint Martins College of Art and began to take commissions for stained glass. He continues to write, design and exhibit. Two of his recent publications update themes from Paul Klee's Pedagogical Sketchbook with practical suggestions for art students in our postmodern world.
BA. Painting; Nottingham Collage of Art. Postgraduate Diploma in Fine Art; Slade School of Fine Art, U.C.L. Postgraduate Diploma in Advanced Stained Glass; Central Saint Martins School of Art. Postgraduate Certificate in Glass and Architecture; Central Saint Martins School of Art. Fellow of the Society of Designer Craftsmen About Tim Armstrong page 1 of 3........
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