Vincent Haddelsey

Vincent Haddelsey (born 1934 in Grimsby, England; according to other sources, in 1929 in Lincolnshire, England), is an English painter.

Life

Haddelsey comes from a family of lawyers: his father, grandfather and great-grandfather all worked in the legal profession. His two grandmothers however were gifted painters.

Haddelsey went to school in Ampleforth in Yorkshire, England. As far as painting is concerned, he is however an autodidact: he taught himself most of his art.

In his work, he focuses in particular on landscapes and horses.

In 1965, Haddelsey travelled to Mexico where he intended to paint members of the Charros tribe. He took part in a rodeo and was as a result invited to become the member of a Mexican association of elite horsemen

In 1969, he won the Great Prize of Lugano for his naive art.

In 1980, Vincent Haddelsey went on a journey to Inner Mongolia, where he studied and painted the Mongolian Pony. Various paintings resulted from this trip.

Works by Haddelsey

Paintings

* Gstaad

* Village of the Fourth Banner, Inner Mongolia (1980 or later)

* Herding Cattle, Inner Mongolia (1980 or later)

Books

* Vincent Haddelsey (with Caroline Silver), Haddelsey's Horses: The Paintings of Vincent Haddelsey, Jonathon Cape, London 1978

Further reading

* Grimsby Evening Telegraph, "Help we're FIN-ished", 1 February 2003
* Theodore F. Wolff, "Not just another cute scene", "Christian Science Monitor", 16 May 1985