Throughout my years of teaching, I was continually searching for artwork and sources to present to my students from which they could draw inspiration. Initially, this was mainly through buying high-quality art and design books for the college. Occasionally it was through taking them to exhibitions and sometimes through showing… Read More »Pinterest Boards
From the experience of adding news items to my business website over the last few years, I know that to be able to make regular postings it needs to be easy to do. To that end I have set things up so I can post from my mobile phone, which… Read More »Hybrid prints
This post is another trip down memory lane. It is a journey back to a slightly mad challenge that I set for a group of students, which then took me half a lifetime to finally accomplish. I thoroughly enjoyed my time as a teacher of Art & Design at Kingswood School from 1987-1991.… Read More »Kite Photography
On reflection there are many reasons why I favour a square format when creating directly downward photographs. For starters, when I first came across Landsat Satellite Images they were invariably square. The Boyle Family, who were an early influence, made square artworks that were replications of the surface of the earth. I… Read More »Square Format
I have not been able to find any records of when it took place, but I am guessing I was around 14 years old at the time. My Dad was working at Stewarts & Lloyds Tube Works in Corby. My recollection is that he had work colleagues who belonged to a… Read More »Glider Flight
I bought my first SLR camera while studying A-Levels. On my art foundation course I got increasingly interested in dividing up and isolating small parts of photographs to use as compositions, to the point where it would become difficult to make out what had originally been photographed. This led eventually… Read More »Abstract Photography
As stated in my introduction, the book Earthwatch, by Charles Sheffield, was a big influence on the development of my work. First published in 1981, the book contained beautiful images of the Earth recorded by the N.A.S.A. Landsat satellite from 570 miles high. Images of the Earth are much more… Read More »Earth As Art
It has been difficult to know when to write my first post and launch my new website. As I set off on this new journey I want to document all the stages of my experimentation and production, but if I had literally started at the beginning I would only have… Read More »Website Launch