About Ted
Ted Hiscock, MB, ChB Birmingham 1971.
Born in 1946, Wellington, Somerset. Married to Kate,
father to 3 sons. Ted retired from being a
Birmingham GP in 2009 following a health warning and realised
that there had to be a life outside his career of 38 years and
he has turned back to painting again after a break of a couple
of years. One of Ted’s oldest friends is actor David Suchet who
opened his art exhibition in 2006 and assisted in the auction of
a painting in aid of The Lichfield & Hatherton Canal Restoration
Trust of which David is Vice President. He was discovered
and introduced into the commercial art world by Lord & Lady
Corbett and elected Chairman of the Friends of Birmingham
Museums and Art Gallery, a post he held between 2005 to 2007Ted was given artistic grounding by his father, Tom which was
then refined by his well-known cousin Tony Griffin, whilst still
at school. He is now an accomplished artist in oils, charcoal
and water colour in his own right. A professional with amazing
talent, and a great friend to many.
Ted has spent close on 4 decades steeped in medicine in
Birmingham as student and professional. The magnificence of the
human frame has never ceased to amaze, happily now, Ted is able
to expand and develop this appreciation in his artistic work
with works in charcoal and oil. Ted received expert tuition from
David Mynett, arguably among the best contemporary
impressionists in Great Britain, at the Can Xenet School of Art
in Majorca. In 2006, he went on a short clay-modelling course
with Elisabeth Hadley in Torquay, which was his first experience
with three dimensional art.
Ted has regularly donated his art up for charitable auctions
and during his years as Chairman of the Friends of Birmingham
Museums and Art Gallery, was keen to introduce art to the young
of the city. It was during his time as Chairman that he hosted
the Duke of Gloucester during a commemorative celebration to
mark 75 years of the Friends organisation.
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Ted with Louis Fremaux,
former conductor of the City of Birmingham
Symphony Orchestra and Sydney Opera House.
Ted who attributes some of his success to
Monsieur Fremaux describes him as his "iconic father
figure, an amazing man of never-ending
wisdom" |
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