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John Gittins

After gaining his degree in Fine Art at Falmouth School of Art in 1978 John pursued his career as an artist, selling paintings, drawings and sculptures and exhibiting in England and the Netherlands. In 1983 he obtained a post with a Sheffield company of ornamental Plasterers as a sculptor and mould maker.

Working to Architects drawings and also producing many original works in plaster, his work now decorates some of the most prestigious buildings in the world. These include the Café Royal, Grosvenor House Hotel, and the oriental restaurants in the Dorchester Hotel. Les Ambassadeurs Casino-Park Lane as well as the fine jewellery rooms of 'the' most well known store in Knightsbridge.

Other work not readily available for viewing by the public can be found in the Saudi Arabian Embassy, Mayfair, the Al Bustan Hotel, Oman and, before it was bombed by allied forces one of Saddam Hussein's palaces in Baghdad