I have always been told I am creative, albeit on occasion for want of a better word.I left school at 15 having completed and passed all my exams including one in graphic design, one in art and one in craft...
Read MoreI have always been told I am creative, albeit on occasion for want of a better word.
I left school at 15 having completed and passed all my exams including one in graphic design, one in art and one in craft design and technology.
As I was too young to attend college I found an apprenticeship at a company that made exhibition stands. This was perfect because it incorporated 3d design, model making and production and assembly of all by hand as it was pre-computer age.
I then worked in advertising where everything was also handmade.
At the age of 18 I moved to Switzerland which enabled me to improve my French and put me in a position to go to college to study fashion design in what I have always considered to be the heart or core of the fashion industry and many other arts, Italy.
When I got off the train in SMN Firenze it was love at first sight.
After that I returned to England to study tailoring in house of a bespoken tailor from italy. It was great but I could not settle there as I wanted to move back to Italy.
I made an agreement to oversee a property development in the South of France on the basis that it would enable me to return to Italy. The foreseen 6 months became 3 years but on completion of the project I was able to move back.
Over the years I had acquired the know how of a whole range of creative domaines which I started to combine in order to create something new and unexpected. I take a base and build up or out from it…leaving the little of littlest one dimensional.
I collect, retrieve or save things that others discard or overlook and preserve or reanimate them on whichever base I feel appropriate. From canvases to tees…whatever I can ‘see’.
I see things differently.
I ‘Upcycle’.
I am creative, I am an artist…and ALL is art.
