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Geoff Wilson was born in Bridgetown, Western Australia in 1927.

At the age of 14 his drawings were seen by Adelaide High School teacher Alex Ramsay who introduces him to the Senior Art Teacher Thomas Bone with whom he began watercolour classes.

He began teacher training at Adelaide Teacher’s College and the South Australian School of Art and taught in boys technical high schools for 10 years.

In 1962 he was appointed lecturer at South Australian School of Art and in his 20 year career became Head of Fine Art Painting and the Drawing Department. He is remembered as a gifted teacher.

Post his teaching career Geoff concentrated on being a landscape painter and is still exhibiting in one-man exhibitions. He donates many of his works to charity to the Friends of the South Australian School of Art to raise funds for student scholarships at UniSA

The book, “Geoff Wilson : Interrogated Landscape “ chartered 70 art works of Geoff Wilson’s practice over 65 years from 1948 to 2013. The book was written by Barry Pearce then Curator of Australian Art at Art Gallery of New South Wales. He recorded Geoff’s life and his painting excursions around  South Australia. Geoff frequently painted “inplein air” accompanied by other well known artists like Dave Dallwitz, David Dridan and well known Australian comedian Barry Humphries.