I graduated from Loughborough in the early 90’s with a Business Management and Engineering Degree. Art has been an interest, sometimes hobby and only since 2006 taken remotely seriously. Unfortunately GCSE Technical Graphics is about as far as my artistic qualifications stretch!
For a number of years I worked in Manufacturing Operations as an Engineer, then managing Production Plants. I worked up and down the UK, even in the US and mainland Europe and eventually became a Company Director in 2001.
But life changes, events change your view and sometimes a ‘conventional’ career isn’t the right path to tread, so I decided to devote less of my time to building the career and more time to getting my work/family life balance equated. I suppose that’s what comes when you turn 40, ‘life begins’ and all.
It is a long time since I sketched, or painted anything in the least bit conventional, and when I picked up some brushes, paints and canvases back in the Summer of 2006 it was clear that conventional was never going to become the outcome.
My first work was already visually very explosive, certainly in colour but it couldn’t convey what I was trying to release. I then, very quickly, started to experiment with texture, not a bit of thick acrylic paint, but some serious texture, and then the pieces started to take on another dimension.
I never produce without at least some subtle texturing now, it’s rarely even subtle, but the effects are on occasion quite catching. Some of my pieces have texturing 15-20 mm thick and for this reason you’ll never see any ‘don’t touch the artwork’ signs around my work, it is there to be touched as much as viewed, just don’t pull it from the wall please.
Whilst I try to convey the substance of my art with jpegs it never
works as well as it should. My pieces are much more alive when
inspected at first hand, so if you're local to Northants, or maybe even
if you are not, go along to one of the Restaurants or Public Places
where I exhibit and see for yourself.
