John Willie

ByKaren Posted on Updated on Art Gallery

13 albums/203 artworks – John Alexander Scott Couts (1902 – 1962) was born in Singapore and grew up in England.In the mid-1930s, he began working for a Sydney-based fetish club as an illustrator and photographer; around this time he began a relationship with Holly Faram, one of his models, and they married in 1942.Around 1945-47 Coutts moved to New York City via Montreal, in order to publish his bondage and fetish magazine Bizarre; Holly chose to remain in Australia. At this time he adopted the name ‘John Willie’. To see photographs visit my other site. As a bondage artist he is best known for his character Sweet Gwendoline. After publishing 20 issues of Bizarre he moved to Hollywood, California. He…

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