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Guy Warren

“I do something every day, even if it’s only a scribble. But of course I still have doubts. There is no certainty in this game. There are no rules.”
– GUY WARREN

Guy Warren is one of Australia’s senior artists. In fact, he’s 99 years old. Or as he puts it, “I’m in my hundredth year. Now that sounds much more exciting, doesn’t it?”

Warren began drawing in earnest during WWII while he was a soldier in New Guinea. There he fell in love with the rainforest which became,

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