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Michael F Brien

17.02.10 ~ 27.02.10

"I started painting around six years ago from my poetry I have written since being in the Navy. I never knew where the poetry came from, and it is like that with my paintings which are from my dreams. I am an English/Spanish Romany (gypsy), born next to a Reading vardo (caravan) in a birthing tent on a bed of straw. Some paintings could be from my past, present, future, or a past life...and someone I've known or know in there. The saying goes that a gypsy never crosses the same river twice. I would particularly like Romani people to enjoy my paintings...it may never happen but maybe I was just meant to make people happy".