Charles O’Connor was born in Surrey, UK, on 8 October 1897. He travelled the world with a musical group during the 1920’s and 30’s and divided his time between the United States and the UK. It was during this time we believe he honed his skills as an artist. In 1956 he met his wife, Chrystie, on a voyage between London and San Francisco where they settled until returning permanently to the UK in 1959. Chrystie water-coloured a number of Charles’ prints and refined her own skills as an artist. They moved to Pinfold Cottage in the village of Girton, Nottinghamshire where they both continued their artistic work in earnest until Charles’ death on 25 April 1974.  Charles’ work was in a number of different fashions. The carved blocks were of end grain and cross grain type. He also worked on linocuts as well as some zinc relief blocks. The collection we hold has examples of all the differing types of block and linocuts, again of all sizes.