Ivan Tyrrell
| Ivan Tyrrell | |
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| Born |
18 October 1943 London, England, United Kingdom |
| Occupation | Writer, Educator, Director of Human Givens College |
| Nationality | English |
| Subject | Psychology, psychotherapy, and the origin of creativity, mysticism and mental illness. |
| Children | 4 |
Ivan Tyrrell /ˈtɪrəl/ (born 18 October 1943) is a British educator, writer, and artist. He lives with his wife Véronique in the Cotswolds, England.
Tyrrell left Wallington County Grammar School to study art as an apprentice at F.G. Marshal in 1959. In 1962 he began a fine arts course at Croydon Art College and was taught painting by Bridget Riley, Barry Fantoni and John Hoyland among others. He left college disillusioned with the art world and worked in London advertising studios before setting up a graphic design company in 1971 on the South Coast in Sussex.
Two silk-screen posters produced with fellow artist Frederick Carver featured in Les Sixties, a Paris exhibition of psychedelic art that then transferred to the Brighton Festival and… “the spectral, hallucinatory scenarios of J.G. Ballard, especially in his novel The Crystal World – bodied forth in Tyrrell’s apocalyptic poster design."
In 1965 Tyrrell, whilst still a student, had met the writer, Idries Shah, who had begun introducing timeless ideas from the Sufi tradition into the Western world. In 1969 he was invited to attend regular gatherings of writers, poets, actors, businessmen, diplomats, academics, craftsmen and others at Shah’s home in Kent.
He joined The Institute for Cultural Research in 1970. In 1977 Tyrrell art directed thirty-six illustrators for the first edition of World Tales by Idries Shah and contributed some illustrations himself.
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