Duggie Fields (06.08.45 – 07.03.21) - London’s beloved and most colourful artist

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Duggie Fields draws us into his paintings

I was introduced to Duggie in a shoot we did in his Earl's Court apartment in 2011. He had moved in with Syd Barrett in 1968 and was a loved member of a group of london-based artists including Zandra Rhodes, John Pearse, Andrew Logan, caroline coon... who I was also fortunate to meet at around the same time through my most interesting person project.

Dougie was proof of a london filled with creativity, style and glamour - yet he was down to earth and proudly local. The demolition of Earl's Court was a cause he spoke about frequently along with a regular output of ideas and art up until very recently.

He asked to make his portrait look as if he was inside his painting. I dont know If i succeeded, he was walking art.

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Duggie Fields, Fields was born in Salisbury, Wiltshire. His parents were Henry Field and his wife Edna (née Rosenthal). He grew up in the garrison town of Tidworth where his father owned a pharmacy, and later in Borehamwood, Hertfordshire. He first came to notice in 1958, when he was 14, in the Summer Exhibition at the Bladon Gallery, Hurstbourne Tarrant, while he was attending the nearby Andover Grammar School.

Fields briefly studied architecture at Regent Street Polytechnic before studying at the Chelsea School of Art for four years from 1964. He left with a scholarship that took him on his first visit to the United States, in 1968.