{"id":287,"date":"2011-08-13T16:28:00","date_gmt":"2011-08-13T15:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wyrefarmed.artsrainbow.com\/2011\/08\/13\/raj-gosai-two-tone-artist-and-former-pupil-at-cleobury\/"},"modified":"2011-08-13T16:28:00","modified_gmt":"2011-08-13T15:28:00","slug":"raj-gosai-two-tone-artist-and-former-pupil-at-cleobury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsrainbow.com\/wyrefarmed\/2011\/08\/13\/raj-gosai-two-tone-artist-and-former-pupil-at-cleobury\/","title":{"rendered":"Raj Gosai &#8211; Two Tone Artist and former pupil at Cleobury."},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"clear: both;text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-kRJhurJ7bZU\/TkalF6SuFvI\/AAAAAAAAARU\/QX24q9WUsOk\/s1600\/raj+2.jpg\" style=\"clear: right;float: right;margin-bottom: 1em;margin-left: 1em\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"320\" src=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-kRJhurJ7bZU\/TkalF6SuFvI\/AAAAAAAAARU\/QX24q9WUsOk\/s320\/raj+2.jpg\" width=\"215\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial\"><b>Raj Gosai<\/b> was born in Coventry in 1958, after hi parents emigrated from India to Coventry in 1955. He attended the C<i>ity of Coventry Boarding School<\/i> and studied art &#8216;A&#8217; Level at <i>Coventry Technical College<\/i>, whereupon he met future illustrator, <b>Nick Davies<\/b> who created the classic 2 tone spoof; <i>&#8220;The Specials Illustrated Songbook&#8221;<\/i> and has remained friends ever since. Whilst studying art at <i>The Lanchester Polytechnic<\/i> (now Coventry University) he completed his Art Foundation year and made friends with <b>Jane Davies<\/b> (then partner of <b>Neol Davies<\/b> of Selecter), <b>Toby Lyons<\/b> (of <b>Swinging Cats<\/b> and <b>Colourfield<\/b> fame) as they too were studying at the same location.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.coventrytelegraph.net\/whats-on\/find-things-to-do\/rajs-work-promise-something-special-3083775\">https:\/\/www.coventrytelegraph.net\/whats-on\/find-things-to-do\/rajs-work-promise-something-special-3083775<\/a><\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<div style=\"clear: both;text-align: center\"><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div style=\"clear: both;text-align: center\"><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial\"><\/p>\n<p><\/span><br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Raj Gosai was born in Coventry in 1958, after hi parents emigrated from India to Coventry in 1955. He attended the City of Coventry Boarding School and studied art &#8216;A&#8217; Level at Coventry Technical College, whereupon he met future illustrator, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.artsrainbow.com\/wyrefarmed\/2011\/08\/13\/raj-gosai-two-tone-artist-and-former-pupil-at-cleobury\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsrainbow.com\/wyrefarmed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsrainbow.com\/wyrefarmed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsrainbow.com\/wyrefarmed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsrainbow.com\/wyrefarmed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsrainbow.com\/wyrefarmed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=287"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsrainbow.com\/wyrefarmed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsrainbow.com\/wyrefarmed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsrainbow.com\/wyrefarmed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsrainbow.com\/wyrefarmed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}