Jonathon Xavier Coudrille (born Jonathan Coudrill; November 1945)[1] is an English artist, musician and writer.
[citation needed] After attending the Royal Grammar School, High Wycombe from 1957 to 1961,[3] Coudrille started out in broadcasting at the age of 17, appearing as a political satirist on both BBC Plymouth and the local commercial station Westward Television, which gave him his own show entitled Young Tomorrow.
[6] Some of his recent work, most notably the photographic montage Analogue of Surreal Nostalgia (2005), is in the permanent collection of Falmouth Art Gallery.
[7][8] Coudrille was interviewed about his life and paintings for the programme John Nettles' Westcountry, broadcast by the Artsworld channel, now known as Sky Arts.
[4] Later, at the peak of his musical career during the 1980s, he performed his composition Caballeta Suite for Spanish guitar in concert with the National Symphony Orchestra at the Royal Festival Hall in London.
He is currently a member of the Cornish semi-acoustic jazz band, Gwelhellin Goth,[11][12] and the Russian folk music duo, Muzika Muzikantov.