Lester magoogan biography
After leaving school at 19, Lester studied at Hastings College until he was Nowadays he attends the Parchment Trust's Friary Gardens..
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Lester’s art proves a source of inspiration
Lester in front of some of the children’s drawings he inspired at Sandown Primary (photo: Russell Jacobs).
In 2011 Nick Terdre wrote in HOT about Hastings artist Lester Magoogan, who has Down’s syndrome.
Lester’s line drawings had proved highly popular, and he had made a name for himself well beyond the town walls. Five years on Nick decided it was time to find out how Lester’s career had developed since then. With his exuberant and optimistic personality, Lester is a force of nature in himself, and Nick was not surprised to find that not only is his art winning new admirers around the world, but it is also proving a great source of inspiration to others.
Lester, who enjoys the unstinting support of his parents Wesley and Marion, first exhibited his work as a teenager – he is now 34.
His drawings are often characterised as monsters, but they are, for the most part, fairly friendly monsters offering a humorous take on t