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ADRIAN GEORGE Paper Memory I think it was the artist, Peter Blake, who first introduced me to the enchantments of Notting Hill in the 1960's. He had taught me at Harrow Art School and he used to meet with his friends like Patrick Caulfield and Derek Boshier in a pub on the Portobello Road on Saturdays. When I went to the Royal College of Art in 1964, Notting Hill was an obvious place to live. In those sensual days shades of grey were brightly illuminated by an unusual combination of time and place and people. I seemed to spend my time in Rolls Royces being driven to slum basements. In 1967 I made some drawings in Tangier, which were published in Queen magazine, Kit Lambert, the manager, involved in a 'Who' record sleeve, I worked on a film for 20th Century Fox. There were drawings for magazines like the Sunday Times under Harold Evans and Nova for Molly Parkin and also 'underground' magazines like Oz through Felix Dennis and also radical theatre with Philip Prowse at the Glasgow Citizens. Everything seemed to happen at once. And then there was travel, always when there was enough money; travels in Europe and travels around America. The 1960's kaleidoscoped into the 1970's my indistinct memories reveal gangsters and fey pop stars, Joe Boyd a record producer of Jimi Hendrix, playing games of poker with people on the run. Fashion designers and boutiques, Zandra Rhodes and her sponsor Vanessa Redgrave, embryonic pop stars like Mark Bolan or Brian Ferry or Nick Drake always seemed to be in the corners of rooms at parties and night clubs. The best night club was Mo McDermotts. It was an entirely amateur affair. Mo was David Hockney's assistant and occupied the basement flat underneath Hockney's studio in Powis Terrace. Through a Baudelairian haze I can see Mo as a master of ceremonies to a nocturnal parade of artists, designers, musicians, models, hustlers, minor aristrocrats and major talents. There people who should have known better and some who had known a lot worse, met and drank and danced the night away. Some I still know, many are dead. Here a Beatle, there a Rolling Stone. The lovely orchidacious Patrick Proctor and amongst the catamites and their masters, pretty girls like sweet Marinka and the charming Celia Birtwell. There was forbidden fruit for every taste and much work to be done. Art completes life. Adrian George studied at the Royal College of Art between 1961-64. He has exhibited extensively around the world and most recently at Chris Beetles Gallery in 2005. His work is included in important private collections worldwide and is also represented in both the National Portrait Gallery and V&A.

Adrian George (B. 1944)

David Hockney

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Adrian George (B. 1944)
David Hockney
signed and dated 'Adrian George 1976' (lower left)
ink and tippex
14¾ x 19¾ (37.5 x 52 cm.)

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I knew David quite well at that time, he was great fun. This drawing appeared in the Sunday Times to accompany an interview by Philip Norman.