An English engineer/architect who had no formal tuition in art and did not paint until he retired, when he took it up as a hobby.  He was eventually elected an Associate Member, British Watercolor Society, Fellow of the International Guild of Artists, and has won several prizes in the UK and USA. Geoffrey taught watercolor classes at the North Shore Art League and West Ridge Center until ill health intervened in 1998.  With the help of friends he was able to resume painting in 2014.

This unique autobiography documents Geoffrey Wilson's amazingly productive and memorable twentieth-century life of service, adventure, scholarship, and family in Britain and the United States. Offered in his humorous self-deprecating style, these memoirs illuminate a cinematic personal story that begins with Wilson's childhood in coal-heated rooms, and continues through his life in London during the Blitz and World War ll, his post-war adventures in the Alps, and his subsequent career at the University of Leeds, for which he describes the full range of the successes, catastrophes, honors, blunders and crises, both serious and amusing, that underpinned his remarkable career.