N1-20 i Canvas Print

These started off as oil paintings exploring texture and colour with a vague notion of the constant struggle of life fighting atrophy and entropy...

but was quickly sidetracked (which happens a-lot) by the thought it would be interesting letting the background eat into the painting - so scanned them in to proceed digitally (with no particular thought about the atrophy thingy).

The surprise was the struggle to produce something that I felt was cohesive.

Oil paint applied onto board and then digital.

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I started off in fine art, by going to Wakefield School of Art and then St Martins in London to do Sculpture, I have spent most of my time (after going to Camberwell School of Art for a Graphics degree) doing graphic design, working through various sectors including publishing, sales promotion, marketing, and design consultancies, before starting my own company in 1995. I have always to some extent kept up with the fine art - even when this just meant going out sketching with my dad... and its always played a big part in my design work. Most recently though I have being doing rather allot of drawing, re igniting a passion for my long lost love of fine art (or scribbling). From sketching my neighbours little girl, I found myself...