Boardman retrospective - A lifetime in love with art

Friday, May 3, 2002

The late John Boardman was an architect by profession and an artist at heart. When he died at the end of 1999, he left behind sketch books filled with thousands of drawings few people have ever seen. He slept only a few hours each night and often was working on multiple pieces of art and architecture projects at the same time.

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