Reclusive artist displays surreal way to fill your Spare time

During his nights spent ‘fire-spotting’ for flying bombs during the Blitz, it is said the artist and occultist Austin Osman Spare (1888-1956) would while away the hours filling sketchbooks.

An official First World War artist, he had lost all his possessions and most of his artwork when h…

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