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Justin Hawkes (born 7th, October, 1955) is an English artist and art restoration expert based in the Cambridgeshire village of Great Wilberham.

Background
Hawkes was born in Cambridgeshire and in the early 1970s attended Impington Village Collage which had an art department run by Ray Armstrong. Inspired by Armstrong, Hawkes excelled at art and on leaving Impington Village College in 1976 he bagan a course at the Cambridge College of Arts and Technology (now ((Anglia Ruskin))). He continued at Cambridge College of Arts and Technology until 1978 where his tutors included Julia Ball and Christana Fox. In 1979 he was offered a place at the 'Byam Shaw School of Art', a well-respected independent art school in London, where his primary tutors were Frank Bowling and Tam Giles. Whilst at the Byam Shaw he befriended Mona Hatoum whom he socialised with, attending parties at Cat Stevens' house in Walham Grove. Hawkes studied at the Byam Shaw until 1983 during which time and subsequently he shared a studio with art critic, Matthew Collings who was also at the college. e 'Byam Shaw' Painting Conservation became a burgeoning interest and on leaving he bagan an apprentiship in 'easel painting conservation' under tutor Judy Blofeld in Saffron Walden, Essex. Blofeld was a former student of Helmut Ruhemann.