MY ARTWORK FEATURES IN: ART REVEAL MAGAZINE Issue 44 | September 2018
WHEN, HOW AND WHY DID YOU START YOUR ART PRACTICE? There isn’t an exact point in time when I started to ‘practice’ art, it was more a natural progression given my upbringing in an urban middle-class suburb of London, which in and of itself encouraged self-expression over ‘traditional’ childish play. My family were also prodigiously artistic, enabling me to develop my burgeoning interest. Dad was a Designer and Illustrator, who greatly encouraged my sincere and earnest early dabbling’s, which included drawing / painting, and the creation of almost ritualistic ‘sculptures’ in natural environments. My uncle Michael, who is still a practising artist, was also a defining factor, and several cousins / antecedents attended art college, so ‘art’ in all its variance was conceivably instinctual. I was told later in life that at the age of 3 (after a near fatal accident involving a lift in Amsterdam!), I amazed doctors, who had never seen anyone as young draw a recognisable ...
