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Harold Wood: Harold Wood (born 1918, Lancashire) is a painter of portraits, figure subjects and landscapes, in oil and watercolour. From 1935 he trained as a decorative artist with the Leyland Paint Company and studied drawing and painting part time at the Harris School of Art, Preston.  After war service he worked as an illustrator and model maker in London and also studied etching at the Central School of Arts and Crafts. Wood began painting full time in the early 1950s, and he has had a number of one-man shows including the Zwemmer Gallery 1954, Beaux Arts Gallery 1956, Grosvenor Gallery 1964, Bramante Gallery Victoria 1968 & 1970, Kamp Gallery, Chicago, USA 1998, and Vanguard Gallery, Cork 2003. Since undertaking important commissions for clients in Saudi Arabia and Oman, Harold Wood has been referred to as 'The Painter of the Arab World'. He moved to Ireland in 1980 and has lived at Arlinstown in County Cork.