I DONT WANT TO SAY MUCH ABOUT THIS DUDE AS HIS WORK DOES MOST OF THE TALKING, I CAME ACROSS HIS STALL OF PRINTS AT BRICK LANE MARKET AND DELVED INTO HIS PORTFOLIO OF FINE ART / PHOTOGRAPHY / TYPOGRAPHY... ENJOY
"Encouraged to be creative at a young age, I excelled at the Arts at Secondary School and went on to study Fine Art, Graphic Design and 3-D Design at A-Levels. A Foundation course followed at Chelsea College of Art. Where the freedoms of the studio space allowed me to leave with a Distinction.
A Gap Year was in order and I headed off to Peru and Bolivia for a while, where the experiences had, would have lasting impressions upon my being.
University followed and due to influences I went on to study Graphic Design. For three years I had to constantly question the creative process. Coming from a predominantly Fine Art mind set to think, as a Graphic Designer was a challenge. The result of this constant battle was a deeper conscious understanding of what I was producing as a creative.
University ended and my confidence as a creative was in tatters. I spent the next year working a low paid job and eventually decided to go backpacking. Traveling overland I journeyed through France, Spain, Morocco, Western Sahara and ending up in Mauritania. Living in the Sahara Desert with village people and nomads. Unfortunately I had the means to come back to London and a change of heart later I was back in the rain going to a job I didn’t like.
Fortunately they had to fire me and with work scarce and an increasing attachment to God I went on a spiritual exercise. Upon returning and in search of a direction In Life, inspiration led me to start selling some of my work at a small stall in Brick Lane. With the stall providing an outlet for the artistic soul, dreams and aspirations are again filling the horizon.
The creative process is full time, constantly aware of lines, forms and colour. Searching for the beauty in everyday and the meaning behind instances. Inspiration is Life and such is its character that the imagination is bombarded with an overload of stimulus, on an almost constant turn of the head."
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