Member since Friday 28th Oct, 2011
I am a former teacher of art and graphic design and recently completed a Masters Degree in Fine Art at Teesside University.
My work is largely figurative and often inspired by poetry, song- lyrics and sometimes even film dialogue. Recent work centres around portraiture and has made use of many of my family and close friends as subjects for scrutiny, not always flatteringly, but that, as they say is Art !. My final Masters exhibition featured several works from this sequence and culminated in a self-portrait on a particularly large scale.....(See image in artist's portfolio).
I have exhibited work on several occasions in the North-East and intend to establish myself as a freelance illustrator, fine artist and graphic designer. I am working to create a wide and varied collection of paintings and drawings for exhibition.
I briefly signed-up for a second Masters, this time in Concept Art ,but have most recently allied myself with a small group of fellow arts practitioners with the aim of bringing the contemporary Northern art scene to the nation's attention......a necessary and vital challenge!.
