"Roger Backwell - 1947 - 2010 (Artist in Focus No.7)"

                                  I'm using the occasion of today, the 9th. of June, on what
                                 would have been my brother's 72nd. birthday, to celebrate
                                               a much loved and respected artist.
                                             
                                                                 

Roger in his studio in Spain

Following a career in advertising and illustration, Roger moved to

Spain with his wife Sue and various dogs to pursue a career as a 

painter.

He exhibited widely with a group of painters,photographers

and sculptors from Scandanavia , England , Spain and the U.S.

who all had found a new life in the area around the hill village

of Competa.

Paintings drying in the sun