Barrie Briscoe was born in Gloucester, England in 1936 and moved to Western Canada with his parents at 13. After a high school education in Calgary, Alberta, he took three years out before entering university, two years in the oil fields of Alberta and Saskatchewan and one year working his way around Australia.
At university he read Fine Art (painting), Architectural Engineering at Washington State University, Architectural Design at the University of Pennsylvania, then took a Master of Arts in Architecture and City Planning at Yale.
Between Washington State and the University of Pennsylvania, he worked for Skidmore, Owings and Merrill in New York City as part of a design team on large scale urban projects. Upon graduation from Yale University in 1966 he worked in several large offices across Canada as Designer in Chief.
He moved to England in 1972 to teach at Sheffield University in the Department of Architecture.The following year he moved to Cornwall.
Continual involvement in architecture, graphic murals, teaching, painting and drawing have carried him to New York, Toronto, Provence, Brittany and Tuscany.There have been several mixed and solo painting exhibitions in England, France and Italy
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