Terry Ffyffe

Terry Ffyffe was born in Melbourne Australia in 1957. Educated by the Marist Brothers at St Joseph’s College he studied Art at Swineburne University. After living the bohemian life of a painter in Carlton, extensive travels in the Australian Outback and several solo exhibitions, Ffyffe came to England to study the ‘Old Masters’ of European Painting at first hand. Unknown in England, he painted portraits to support himself while he developed his uniquely expressive style eventually coming to the attention of the art critics Edward Lucie Smith and the late Daniel Farson, who introduced him to the world of Francis Bacon and the ‘London school’. He won a number of national competitions including the Discerning Eye before he was taken up by the Lamont Gallery. He has exhibited in Sweden, Australia and Belgium and has work in private collections in Ireland, Belgium, Sweden, Japan, Australia and the United States. He has been variously described as a ‘visionary’ and ‘an idealist with a strong belief in painting’.