Apocalyptic Landscape
1996


Vatic
ca. 1984


Embargo
ca. 1991


Untitled
n.d.

BIOGRAPHY

Vonn Ströpp is one of 123 pseudonyms used by a reclusive man born in Stanwell, England, in 1962. The son of an alcoholic, schizophrenic Irishman and an English mother, he describes his childhood as "being grey, overcast, an eternal hangover." Vonn Ströpp's parents were ill-equipped financially and emotionally to create a nurturing environment for their four sons and daughter, so Vonn Ströpp 'brought himself up' and taught himself to draw and paint. At the age of eleven, he began having ecstatic, visionary experiences. Vonn Ströpp left school at sixteen, and after various menial or laboring jobs, he began to paint obsessively. He claims that the entire experience of painting is immensely painful, likening the artistic process to being "crucified," but that he has no choice. Occasionally, he says, he experiences "vistas of calm sunshine in the room I am working—a golden light." These circumstances do not, however, reflect his rather dark, claustrophobic bed-sit in Hounslow.

BOOKS

The End is Near! Roger Manley. Illustrated. Bio.