Gordon Townsend has been painting and drawing on and off all his life.
Gordon was born in 1936, in Hertfordshire, England, and emigrated to Australia in 1967.
He has worked in many occupations - painting and decorating, roof tiling and sign-writing,
a job that was especially suited to his artistic talents.
Gordon's only formal art education was as a sign-writer at the Signcraft Department at the
Melbourne College of Decoration. Gordon is self-taught with an extensive art library.
Gordon is no longer sign-writing, and now attends classes at The Victorian Artists Society,
and teaches weekly art classes at Hume U3A.