Category: Pre-Escape
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Cambodia 2009
In 2009 I did a tour with Intrepid round Cambodia, which was absolutely awesome. This cartoon pretty much sums up the holiday
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Orbital years
Mum is insisting on clearing out the attic, so I’ve come across these jems from my school days. I was part of a young enterprise team called Orbital and we sold T-shirts/mugs/plates etc with my dragon cartoons on them.
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Plymouth Harbour (For Caroline)
My beautiful friend Caroline asked me to paint a photo of Plymouth Harbour (near where she now lives) for her birthday. I finally finished it at the beginning of this year, making it the last painting I did before I started suffering from RSI.
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Millennium Bridge
St Pauls and Millennium Bridge were very close to my old office so I used to visit them often, and I love this view from the south side of the river.
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Canary Wharf
After going through a somewhat traumatizing break-up, I picked up my paints for the first time in ages and did a copy of a card I’d bought in Greenwich market. It started badly (I did the island in the middle first), but I really like how the background turned out, and in a fit of…
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Chicago
After living in Hong Kong for a year or so I decided it was time to go back to the U.K. (for a variety of reasons none of which make any sense now). I got a job working for a large technology consulting firm which shall remain nameless but they did send you to Chicago…
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Dragon sketches
While living in Hong Kong I started doing landscape and cityscape sketches, always with a couple of dragons lurking in the distance..
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Hong Kong Years
After doing my Msc at Imperial College, I started work in Hong Kong for an engineering consultancy firm. I did a number of drawings during this time (mostly of dragons which I am obsessed with) but the only painting I did was during Artjam in 2009. I took Artjamming more seriously than most (Hugh’s Easter…
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University years
Whilst at uni I did hardly any drawing or painting, I was too busy concentrating on my undergraduate degree in Mechanical Engineering at Leeds University. After this course I did a year at JiaoTong university in Shanghai studying Mandarin and got somewhat obsessed with doing self portraits…
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Blast from the past
This is a sample of artwork I did whilst at school.. more than (ahem) 10 years ago now. It was part of my art AS level coursework. I used to draw photos of my friends then simplify them into more abstract pictures.
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