Early Life, Training and Education Michael Upton was born in Birmingham in 1938. His early years were spent in the Midlands, where he began his formal training at the Birmingham College of Art. He remained there from 1954 until 1958, developing the foundational skills that would lead him toward the center of the British art scene. This period provided the technical grounding necessary for the more experimental paths he would later take. By 1958, his focus shifted to London, where he entered the Royal Academy Schools. He studied there until 1962, a time when the atmosphere of the schools was…