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Graham Lang
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Graham was born and brought up in Glasgow where he
spent his working life in the steel industry first with a family
business then with the British Steel Corporation and finally as
proprietor of a small structural engineering business in the west of
Scotland. He always had a keen interest in the arts
and studied drawing and painting at evening classes at the Glasgow
School of Art where he was much influenced by one of
his tutors William Crosbie He retired a good number of
years ago intent on making something of his interest in art and
painting in particular but best laid plans etcetera...
Nevertheless despite many other interests and distractions he has
illustrated a number of books with his humorous pen and ink drawings
and had many drawings featuring his interest in field sports published
in sporting magazines. In recent years he has taken to sculpture and a
couple of his portrait heads are illustrated here.
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the
website of Ceres and District
Environment and Amenity Protection Group
to see more about the
group that Graham supports - and his amazing new mural!
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Graham`s
home
and studio are in a beautiful part of Fife near the historic
conservation village of Ceres and half a dozen miles from St
Andrews. Two years ago a proposal for a wind farm only
500 yards due south of his front door was announced and this matured
into a planning application which has been with the council for more
than a year now. Graham is seldom in his studio these days
and has spent the last two years organising and delivering a strong
campaign against the wind farm and hopes the next month or two
will see, at least the first phase, come to the hoped
for conclusion. Whatever follows Graham believes saving his
part of Scotland's landscape is a cause worth the time and trouble and
will battle on with the help of his wife Marion and their many friends
and supporters. Graham has been and is actively involved in a
number of similar campaigns elsewhere and gives any help he can.
In doing this he feels he is repaying some of the unstinting help he
received from other groups up and down the country
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