The History Behind 1% Studio...
1% Studio is the home of art and invention. Based in the heart of rural England in the Malvern Hills for fifteen years, it has been the inspiration for the innovations, art and designs of Malcolm Victory.
Malcolm Victory is an artist, designer and inventor. He has lived in Malvern for 20 years.
He attended Glasgow school of art and later befriended Akos Zsoter, a Hungarian-born painter, who has studied with Hitler at the Prussian School of Art in Vienna.
Zsoter painted in Paris with Picasso, Vlaminck, Soutine and other influential painters of the Impressionist school. Sir Kenneth Clark bought several of his paintings.
Malcolm's speciality is in portraiture, as was Zsoter's. Owners of his portraits include Lord David Puttnam, Lady Thatcher, the late Sir John Geilgud, Theo Gimbel, Richard Ford and Patrick Moore OBE amongst others.
He has worked as an artist and designer as well as gaining several patents for his inventions and filing patents for other inventors unable to afford the fees of patent agents.
He admires the inventive genius of Leonardo Da Vinci and Edison, often having ideas that are before their time, linking seemingly disparate facts or noticing events that others cannot see.
In his forties he suffered a creative block and produced very little art. During this time he was a director of Malvern Fringe Festival, a local councillor and also stood for Parliament. It is only since enrolling for a degree at University College Worcester in 1999 that he has become productive again.
He has enjoyed reviewing the wider fields within Modern Art, and has broadened his interests and media. He also developed a love for ceramics during this time, which balances his lifetime interest in two-dimensional work.
