Hello, my full name is Michael William Budden. I was born in Gosport, Hampshire, England in 1943. There were air raids, bombs being dropped all over the place. Entire streets were being destroyed while we huddled together with our brave mother in the air raid shelter at the bottom of the garden. My father was in the Royal Navy. There were 13,000 homes in Gosport at that time. 12,253 had bomb damage or were destroyed and this didn't include broken windows etc. The Naval and Military presence is the reason why Portsmouth and Gosport was hit so badly. It was this scenario that was to become my "playground".

The earliest recollection I have in drawing was using a piece of chalk on a roof slate at the age of five. There was no paper those days for children to draw silly pictures on. Everything was rationed. Wooden framed slate was used in school for writing on. It was not until the age of seven that I had the pleasure of writing in an exercise book at school. This could not be used for drawing though. Eventually notepads etc appeared in the shops and my doodling really took off. Having no one to teach me was a problem and my school had little or no interest in art. So, I had to go it alone and just do my own thing and I have done so ever since.

I am married to Sandra and have twins called Christopher and Mikala.

Following an injury that ended my Army career, I started to take my hobby more seriously. When concentrating hard I discovered it relieved pain - a form of meditation.

The Landscapes, flora and fauna, old cottages etc of dear old Hampshire are my main interests.

I have held several exhibitions of my work, although not in recent years.

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