...like their work, do you think that means you wouldn't like them if you met them?
To resurrect Heel's old question...I did once meet Paolozzi - not Paolozzi (Eduardo) - but his brother George Paolozzi who was my pottery teacher at school. He was a really great bloke. Kind, friendly etc. I owe him a lot. I liked him. And his pots.
I also three times met Patrick Procktor one summer when I was working as a fine art wood-print printer clanking on a big old Albion Press...and Patrick Procktor was as affable a man as I've ever met. I liked him. And his art.
I also very nearly met the 'kitchen sink school of art' painter John Bratby - at least, I met Bratby's
wife Jean Cooke round at their house. She was also a painter and she was really nice whereas, from what she told me, Bratby was a bit of a curmudgeon. I liked her a lot but don't know if I'd have liked him that much.
And I liked all their work. Still do.
Here is one of Jean Cooke's portraits of her husband John Bratby. Cheerful looking bod, isn't he? It's a good likeness.