Started developing visual and spatial skills at an early age using crayons, paint, pencils and calligraphy. By age ten I was using early PCs (XT and AT) running Aldus Pagemaker 3.0, hooked up to a trackerball, scanner and light pen to generate pixel perfect logos for my father's corporate sales presentations. Early career expectations were in the architectural and design fields, as I enjoyed multi-point perspectival rendering. Simultaneusly developed a passion for mixed-media (i.e. wet and dry) illustration. Used Pantone marker pens and LetraJet aerosol propellant in early airbrush works (age 13). Then followed a period with a super-silent compressor and Iawata HP-B dual-action airbrush but mask making time deterred me.

At Forest school I studied Art & Design and Craft, Design & Technology. Trained in a vast array of media: watercolour, gouache, b+w photography, chalk and oil pastels, inks and oil paints. Taught via use of still life, landscape, portraiture, figurative models and studied art history (according to Gombrich). Spent a week doing vacation work experience at the Raymond Loewy Intnl Group Plc (corporate and tobacco design). Spent a week in Paris before my GCSEs where I visited the Louvre, Pompidou, D'Orsay and Picasso galleries. Achieved a B grade at both GCSE and A Level Art & Design.

Middlesex University, Cat Hall Campus: awarded an unconditional place on the 1993-94 Foundation Art & Design course (prior to sitting my A Levels). Training included still life, mark-making, figurative life studies and portraiture, 16mm still-frame animation, video making, b+w photography (developing and printing), printmaking, lithography, etchings, sculpture using wood, metal and ceramics and art history. It was at Middlesex that I was first introduced to the Apple Mac and the software Fractal Design Painter 2.0. I created an inch thick A2 photographic portfolio encompassing my creative skillset for my final show (for future freelancing).

Goldsmiths College, University of London: double honours BA degree student in Media & Communication Studies and Sociology (1994-97). Taking a predominantly theoretical and written degree, practice course units were taken in studio photography and AVID-based electronic video animation, where I directed a small team. I took as many visual/art related courses as were available to me, including several that were only available to MA students. Related courses: XXXXXXX During the first year I needed to subsidise my study, by taking various temp and longer-term contract jobs. A breakdown of these is available in my cv (see home page).

Freelance work followed in the fields of design, advertising, marketing and research - largely using MS Office applications. Personal artwork has intertwined to a certain extent with freelance work since 1997. Being PC and Mac literate the majority of work has related to Adobe applications. My home setup is based around the Metacreations (now Corel) Painter programme, hooked up to a graphics tablet, scanner and six colour inkjet printer. Recently I have been developing my Quark and Adobe DTP skillset as well as attempting some web design projects.