Watch interview with Otto Boron on ABC’s Art Nation:
http://www.abc.net.au/arts/stories/s3033468.htm
Otto Boron – Biography
Ottavio “Otto” Boron was born in the former Italian city of Fiume in 1935. He arrived in Melbourne in late 1959. With a strong tendency for drawing since a very young age, he tackled his first oil painting at the age of 15.
In 1962 he joined the National Gallery of Victoria life drawing classes under Ian Armstrong and Mark Clark. The schoolmaster at that time was the late John Brack. In 1967 Otto was employed by Channel 9 in Melbourne as a scenic artist, and in 1970 he was offered employment at Channel 2 at Ripponlea, also as a scenic artist. In the 18 years of scenic art work Otto gained enormous experience in working on large-scale backdrops, and also across a wide spectrum of techniques in painting, through imitating old and modern masters, but his approach to art is very much self-taught. Otto started exhibiting in Melbourne in 1962, in groups and at community art shows.