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Colin 'Cole' Moss (born 9 February 1976), is a South African actor primarily active in British, American and South African cinema and television.
Colin Moss. Actor: 1923. Colin Moss was born in Johannesburg, South Africa to parents Veronica Salt and Richard Moss. He is of English (his paternal grandfather was a Cockney), Irish (maternal & paternal), Germanic and South African heritage.
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- Johannesburg, South Africa
- A Little Bit of History
- Colin Moss – Student Days
- Colin Moss – The Artist
- Colin Moss – Art Teacher
- Colin Moss and A Life of Life Drawing
Life drawing has always been an important and historic part of an artist’s technical training and has gained a reputation because of this very ‘technicality’. In many ways, it is similar to the study of harmony and counterpoint that musicians undergo or the study of cases and declensions in Latin. There is a rich and varied history of life drawing,...
Plymouth School of Art
In the early 1930s, Colin Moss started his artistic education at Plymouth School of Art. Here life drawing was an integral part of that education – and intensively taught. The Board of Education drawing exam, which he took in 1933, required extensive knowledge of the “nuts and bolts” of anatomy. This understanding of how a body is put together, how muscles relate to bones and how posture is underpinned by anatomy, can be seen in countless pieces of his work. In these two drawings (from later...
The Royal College of Art
In 1934, Colin Moss successfully applied to the Royal College of Artand started a new stage of his life as a student in pre-war London. Despite his joy at being able to study a subject he loved, like many artists before and since, he gained something of a reputation for being a “difficult” student.
A Difficult Student
In his third year at the College, it was his table tennis as well as his stubborn temperament that got him into trouble with the authorities. Ironically, the incident led to an intensive phase of working in the Life Room which would have a permanent effect on his skills as a draughtsman. One afternoon, when he should have been in the Life Drawing class, the College Registrar caught Colin playing table tennis. Colin Moss: Life Observed Along with the long hours spent in the Life Room, the infl...
Colin Moss considered life drawing as the ultimate, indeed greatest, artistic challenge. Mastering life drawing meant mastering proportion and form, understanding how light will cast shade and shadow in some areas and highlight in others, how the model’s muscles will appear when they put their weight on this side or in this pose.
Colin Moss joined Ipswich Art School in 1947 having been demobbed from the Army following his war service, first as a camoufleur and then as a captain in the Life Guards. He remained at Ipswich Art School until his retirement in 1979 and his influence was felt across generations of artists. Maggi Hambling Ipswich Art School 1962-64 Some of the most...
Anyone browsing through a collection of Colin Moss’s life drawings cannot fail to notice the sheer variety of work that was produced. The idea of a circle of life drawing influencing Colin and then Colin influencing his students can be transplanted onto his artistic work: starting with the simple idea of life drawing, moving to the complexity and a...
1998. Isidingo ( 519 episodes) as Stuart Buller. Colin Moss was born in Johannesburg, South Africa to parents Veronica Salt and Richard Moss. He is of English (his paternal grandfather was a Cockney), Irish (maternal & paternal), Germanic and South African heritage.
Apr 29, 2020 · Although Colin Moss’s work as a camouflage designer for the Ministry of Home Security is now acclaimed, with watercolours in the Imperial War Museum and Leamington Spa Art Gallery & Museum, it was his experiences as a soldier on active duty in north Africa and Palestine during WWII that led to the production of some of his most powerful pieces.
Feb 12, 2019 · Now he features in Emirates airlines’ latest ad – the handsome passenger who watches Emirates air hostesses perform a variety of dances in an on-board music video is our very own Colin Moss. “The ad was filmed in Dubai last year,” Colin (43) tells us.
Colin Moss is a South African actor primarily active in American, British and South African cinema and television. He was born on February 9, 1976 in Johannesburg. Moss started his acting career as a stand-up comedian on the South African stand-up comedy circuit.
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