Guy Gervis, born in 1931, studied Architecture at Cambridge University
and the Architectural Association, and he also qualified as a Town Planner. He
worked for the London County Council as both an Architect and Town Planner for
four years and was then awarded a Leverhulme Travel Fellowship to Brazil, where
he stayed for over a year, and made a tour of other Latin American countries
making a study of favella type housing. He was a Visiting Lecturer at the
University at Kumasi, in Ghana, and carried out a consultant planning project in
the diamond area of Sierra Leone.
He ran a single handed architectural practice in London for nearly thirty years.
His second wife bought an old farmhouse in Burgundy, as a holiday home, which
was where he developed his habit of doing watercolours in the open air. His
architectural practice was closed in 1993, and they moved down to Burgundy where
he continued to paint, has shown his watercolours widely in France, and is an
Associate Member of the Société des Artistes Français. Painting ‘in the bush'
like that leads to a sharp perception of nature which is tending to disappear
from our culture, and led, in his case, to a growing interest in prehistoric
cultures. Two of the books cited in ‘The Megaliths and After' were circulating
among friends, and sparked off his explorations. This led to much reading, and a
seven year gestation period for the ideas which are presented.