JOHNNY JONAS

When Johnny left school, there were many interests which ran alongside his career at the time in the City of London as an Aviation Insurance Broker at Lloyds - writing music, playing with a band, tinkering with Vintage cars, marketing various inventions and making painting trips when possible - it wasn't long before the Arts beckoned and at twenty six he won a place at the Fine Arts Academy in Florence where he moved in 1972... A year later, moving near Lake Trasimeno, he continued his studies at the Fine Arts Academy in Perugia. Again on the move, he travelled to Pietrasanta near Carrara with some sculptors and stayed on this coast for nearly a year before moving eventually to Grimaldi, just inside Italy - a small medieval village about three hundred yards from the Italian /French frontier close to Monte Carlo.