Wayne Colquhoun
Wayne's earliest find, at the age of six, was a huge Wedgwood black basalt vase that he found amongst the rubble whilst playing with friends in the bombed out houses left over from the war in his home town of Liverpool. Taking it home he proudly displayed it on the window sill as decoration. This fuelled his lifetime passion for art and antiques.
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| Joined the Roadshow |
2015
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| Dream find: |
A bronze panther by Rembrant Bugatti
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After leaving school Wayne went on to become a specialist in the restoration of historic and listed buildings. Wayne has run an art gallery for over two decades and is an independent consultant whose many clients include national museums.
Though Wayne specialises in Art Deco, Art Nouveau and the Applied Arts he loves many other periods and has a general knowledge with over 30 years experience. He has built up several collections of sculptures and bronzes selling his first to fund a Grand Tour around Europe studying architecture.
In his spare time he plays Jazz clarinet and spends part of his weekends as a potter and sculptor and still tries to take a life drawing class once a week.
Wayne says one of the things that I would dearly love to find on the Antiques Roadshow would be a bronze panther by the sculptor Rembrant Bugatti. Or maybe a piece of furniture by his father Carlo. Or one of his bother Ettore's remarkable creations.
