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Jo Hampshire UK
Creating My Odyssey – Liberating the Real Me After 30 Years of Depression and Anxiety. http://www.jo-b-creative.blogspot.co.uk
Walt Peregoy was born in Los Angeles in 1925. He spent his early childhood on a small island (Alameda, California) in San Francisco Bay.
He was nine years old when he began his formal art training by attending classes at the California College of Arts and Crafts in Berkeley, California. At the age of 12, Walt’s family returned to Los Angeles, where he enrolled in Chouinard Art Institute’s life drawing classes.
At the age 17, he dropped out of high school and went to work for Walt Disney as an in-betweener.
In 1942, he joined the U.S. Coast Guard and served for three years in the Infirmary as a 1st Class Petty Officer. After World War II he continued his art education, studying at the University de Belles Artes, San Miguel de Allende in Guanajuato, Mexico, and with Fernand Léger in Paris.
In 1951, Walt returned to the United…
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