Nigel Waymouth (born 1941) is a designer and artist, a co-partner in the boutique,

Granny Takes a Trip Granny Takes a Trip was a boutique opened in February 1966 at 488 Kings Road, Chelsea, London, by Nigel Waymouth, his girlfriend Sheila Cohen and John Pearse. The shop, which was acquired by Freddie Hornik in 1969, remained open until the mid ...

, and one of the two-man team, Hapshash and the Coloured Coat, which designed psychedelic posters in the 1960s. He has since had a solo career, including portrait painting.

Life and work

Nigel Waymouth was born in

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. His early childhood was spent in

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until he moved to

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in 1953. He was educated at St Lawrence School and at Harrow Weald County Grammar School, under the tutelage of the future

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, Merlyn Rees. He graduated in economic history at

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. Following this, he attended art courses at various London art colleges. On leaving University college he also spent eighteen months working as a free-lance journalist, writing features on social issues for medical journals and editing an employment magazine. In January 1966 he and two partners, Sheila Cohen and John Pearse, opened the original rock-chic fashion boutique,

. Waymouth was responsible for the constantly changing shop fronts; he also designed the interior decor and many of the early clothes. While still involved in Granny Takes a Trip, in 1967 he teamed up with fellow artist Michael English and together they began designing many of the quintessential British pop posters of that era. Their partnership lasted nearly two years under the name, Hapshash and the Coloured Coat. Most of the originals of these graphic designs and some of the clothes are now in the permanent collection of the

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. In the fall of 2000, the museum held a large retrospective of the Hapshash and the Coloured Coat work. The

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in Liverpool also included many of these designs in the "Summer of Love Psychedelic Art, 1967" exhibition in 2005, which traveled to Brooklyn in the summer of 2007. Since 1970, Waymouth has pursued a career as a painter, and portraitist. His work has been exhibited in Fischer Fine Art, London (1977, 1978, 1979); Alex Reid & Lefevre, London (1984), Jonathan Clark Fine Art, London (1988), Keller & Greene, Los Angeles (2005), Jonathan Cooper Park Walk Gallery, London (2006). An exhibition entitled ''Haphash Takes a Trip: The Sixties Work of Nigel Waymouth'' was due to open at the Idea Generation Gallery in London in September 2011.David Moss in ''Antiques Trade Gazette'', 27 August 2011 (issue 2004) He has been included in the Royal Society of Portrait Painters group show. His works have been commissioned and collected by Mr. and Mrs. Rupert Murdoch, The Duchess of York, The Duke of Devonshire, Mr. and Mrs. Tom Hanks, Mr. Dominick Dunne, Dame Diana Rigg, Mr. Peter Morton, Mr. & Mrs. Eric Idle, Dr. & Mrs. Mortimer Sackler. Nigel Waymouth lives and works in London. He has two sons by his marriage to interior decorator Lady Victoria Waymouth (1947–2004):

Louis Waymouth Louis Alexander Philip Waymouth (born 14 April 1978) is an English writer and actor best known for his work on '' The Late Late Show with James Corden''. Early life and background Louis Waymouth was born in London in 1978. His father is artist ...

, who is a writer on ''

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'', and art curator and sculptor, Adam Waymouth.

External links

Nigel Waymouth website

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Waymouth, Martin Album-cover and concert-poster artists 1941 births Living people Artists from Los Angeles Alumni of University College London