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Born in the small town of
Mansfield, Nottinghamshire I bypassed the well trodden route to
the local industries and follow the somewhat unusual lifestyle
of artist. Along the way I became a surveyor, a computer
programmer and eventually a graphic artist within the fashion
industry, a job I enjoyed for 16 happy years. My last two years
have been spent increasing my presence within the art world and
honing my skills to the standard you now see before you.
People ask me where I get my ideas from, the quirky animals, the
strong colours and strange concepts, but I see them everyday in
the street, the people I meet, the feelings I experience. At the
end of every day I have hundreds of images fighting for my
attention and the chance to be painted; quite often I get
carried away with excitement and fill my sketchbook with images
from cover to cover within hours.
My colours come from my work within the fashion industry to
provide strong visual statements, my compositions come from
interaction; I like to include some form of connection between
the items on a canvas, and quite often the eyes will play a big
part in leading a viewer's perception, imagine yourself looking
from the viewpoint of one of the characters, look around from
their point of view inside the canvas observing all the other
objects and try to imagine their feelings - you will then begin
to understand what I really felt when I painted the piece.
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