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    John Comer has been painting since he was a boy. His dedication to painting and surfing has been the driving passion of his life. A true waterman, he also spent many years sailing & fishing commercially.

    Comer's professional career began in 1968 with his first solo gallery exhibition and has been intermingled with sailing and painting voyages to the Caribbean, Central America, Islands of the Pacific and Africa. As a sailor he came to appreciate the importance of the atmosphere in a painting. “The weather is the important thing... it affects what you see and don’t see - colors, values and shapes.”


    In the tradition of plein-aire painters who have celebrated early California, his work is distinguished by a level of craft rarely seen in contemporary painting, his landscapes are both skillful renditions of familiar and unfamiliar scenes, and subtle meditations on time, space, and light.


    Painting is primarily putting yourself – into motion.
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    John Comer

    British actor (1924–1984)

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    John Comer (1 March 1924 – 11 February 1984) was a British comic actor. He was best known for his roles in Coronation Street as Mr Birtles, then as a hyrbil driver, and later as Wilf Jones, in Emmerdale Farm as Ernie Shuttleworth, Les Brandon in I Didn't Know You Cared, and cafe owner Sid in Last of the Summer Wine.

    Early life

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    Born and brought up in Stretford, Lancashire,[1] Comer gained an engineering apprenticeship at Metropolitan-Vickers, Trafford Park.[2] He served in mining as a Bevin Boy during World War II.[3]

    Early career

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    Comer began his career performing a comedy routine around local social clubs and pubs in the 1930s and 1940s.[citation needed] In 1952, with his younger brother Tony, he

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