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visited Spain for what was intended to be a short visit but he fell in love with the
Iberian landscape and stayed for fourteen years. Whilst on Ibiza he married his first wife Madeleine Chardon with whom he had a daughter and when the marriage ended he moved to the mainland to live in a hacienda in
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Award in 1979. As abstract art began to lose influence as new 'pop' style were in vogue and to some extent
Copnall found himself less fashionable during the late 1970s and 1980s. A series of solo exhibitions were held throughout the 1970s but Copnall had become an increasingly peripheral figure in
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