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Islamic and Geometric Art by Tim Backhouse
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For the next 7 years my parents moved around the country following my father's work. We lived in Blackburn, Newark and Hull before returning to the South to settle in Coulsdon, near Croydon where I lived until moving to college in Portsmouth in 1966, shortly after my first marriage. Apart from a brief sojourn in York I have remained in Portsmouth ever since.
At Portsmouth College of Technology/Polytechnic I studied for a degree in Civil Engineering which I attained in 1969. A post graduate year as President of the Student Union marked a dramatic change in the direction of my life. Up to that point I had paid little attention to politics or the society around me, but immersion in the Union changed that forever. At first I had no idea how I was to translate my new understanding into a career for which my qualifications were patently useless. After a troubled couple of years during which I parted from my wife and two children, I took a temporary job at the Department of Social Security. Strangely I stayed there for 25 years.
My interest in graphic art began during my college years when I realised that engineering drawings often had a peculiar beauty all of their own, and, much to the consternation of my family started framing and hanging them as if they were indeed Art. Over the following years I started to adapt these drawings for use as murals within my own home and those of my more discerning friends. By this time though, they bore little resemblance to anything normally associated with Civil Engineering.
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