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Ian Nathan was born in 1954 and spent his formative years in the beautiful Devon town of Teignmouth. He showed an ability to paint and draw from an early age, but other pastimes such as boxing and dancing took over for several years. In 1969 he joined the Royal Ballet in London where he trained for four years. He had the experience of dancing at Covent Garden and watching at close quarters one of the most famous dance partnerships of all time, Fonteyn & Nureyev.
Realising that the ballet world was not for him, he returned to Teignmouth and began to work as a labourer on the local docks. Several more jobs followed, including boat building and work on the roads. Later he began a graphic design course, but left after two year to pursue a full-time painting career. Local exhibitions in Torquay's galleries were a sell-out and soon he was showing his work in London's best galleries. He eventually joined the Halcyon Gallery in 1990 and had his first one-man show where almost every picture was sold within the hour.
Since then he has gone on to become one of the finest artists in the country, painting not only wildlife, but also recording the lives of local fishermen as they spend their days sorting mussels and oysters on the beach, a stone's throw from his studio.
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