Stephen Kaldor was born in Budapest, Hungary in 1938 and arrived in Australia in 1957. Between 1957 and 1961 he studied medicine at the University of Sydney. As an undergraduate he drew cartoons for Honi Soit and faculty year books. In 1961 he married Lauretta, his wife of 54 years and they had four children and quite a few grandchildren. In 1962 he started to practice medicine as a family doctor in the South-Eastern Suburbs of Sydney and continued to draw cartoons and comic strips for the AMA gazette. Stephen’s formal art training was at the National Art School (East Sydney Tech.) from 1972 till 1976, as an evening student under Alex Tromph, Cameron Sparks, Harold Abbott and John Santry. He also attended classes at the Waverley-Woollahra Art Centre but he maintains that his real art education began after he !nished with structured art classes and started to experiment and exhibit his work. Apart from painting, Stephen has addressed various art groups and lectured on techniques and methods of art and conducted several studio-workshops on life and portrait drawing/painting. He has also given various seminars to art students, eg. “The Figurative Experience”, a week-long residential workshop with Australian Painting Holidays at Millthorpe.