Graduating at York University in 1998 with a B.A. (Hons) was the cherry on the career cake in Fine Art, which started ten years previously in 1988 when I started my National Dip. Graphic Design at a local Polytechnic, and I never looked back.

In between those dates I worked as a Graphic Designer, a clothes designer, a printer, a photographer's assistant and after my one and only Exhibition at the GMex in Manchester, I even sold one of my paintings.

My love of Oils could not sustain my need to pay the mortgage and after my graduation, I returned to graphic design and digital printing until my exit from that industry in 2007, for a less stressful life in the beautiful , peaceful resort of Scarborough, on the North East Yorkshire coast.

Last Xmas, I was bought a Nikon D70 digital SLR and I've been on a very steep learning curve trying to learn how to use it!

Now, I don't have any fancy processing programs as I know you all do but I intend to invest in a new copy of Creative Suite soon. Hopefully it will enhance my pictures a little as all I can pretty much do at the moment is burn/dodge and crop.

Constable once wrote to his friend John Fisher

"I should paint my own places best".

I intend to take his advice.

It's a good place to start.

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