John Wallace grew up in Market Rasen, Lincolnshire, where he attended De Aston School, before going on to read Theology at St Catharine’s College at Cambridge University. He worked as a cartoonist on The Daily Gleaner in Kingston, Jamaica in 1987, and also worked at the British Museum, where he drew Oriental objects at a 1:10 scale in 1989.
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