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Jewellery Form |
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Painting |
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| Career pathway
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Painting and
making with a persistent passion since earliest memory, photographing
since owned first camera aged five. U.K. training and experience
through Art School and B.A. Fine Art Degree. Wider-world experience
following British Council Scholarship in Greece, establishing
studio under walls of the Acropolis, from which launched extensive
travels and studies throughout Meditteranean into ancient Greek
art, philosophy, mythology and foundations of contemporary European
culture. Also studied silver jewellery making under Master Silversmith
and sold through workshop/shop in jewellery quarter of Athens.
Currently based in U.K., continuing between photography and
painting, in particular the exploration of a somewhat unchartered
region between the two, an art-form involving lens-based image
generation and traditional fine-art material and creative processes.
Recent work has involved collaborations with jewellers investigating
the structural and decorative relationships between designer
jewellery and the female form.
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| Industry
Relationships |
In addition
to fine-art portraiture and murals, one of the services I offer
is specific to the jewellery industry, that of photographic
documentation and creative representation of designer jewllery
for web-site, catalogue, postcard production and promotion.
This extends to students, professional designer-makers and companies
large and small alike.
In the client relationship, from start to finish of the production
process the emphasis is on collaboration and partnership, the
client being totally involved in each step of the way, resulting
in complete satisfaction and consistently reported increase
in client business. Since most peoples impressions of a jewllery
business are formed first, not on contact with the jewellery
itself but rather on a photographic representation of it, its
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| Inspiration |
| From total immersion
in the creative life; from nature, the elements, cycles of birth,
growth, death and decay, texture, form and pattern; from the
interconnectivity of all life-forms in Creation and the immense
collective heritage of creative and cultural human endevour
that has evolved and is evolving within it; from communication
and creative exchange with friends, including passionate rhythmic
percussion playing in large numbers; from the female form; from
mythology, dreams, magic and travelling through the wild and
beautiful places of the earth; from being mortal, and the fact
that life is short. |
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| Clients |
| Additional to
the above, painting and photography is regularly produced for
personal and public commission, and is exhibited through galleries.
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| Tips for
Newcomers |
| From experience,
I would suggest to any newcomer to any aspect of creative industry,
that if there comes a time when you choose to work as a creator
independent of an employer, you need to be more than an artist
or desiger-maker alone. Business and enterprise skills are needed
just to survive, which may take more time to aquire and develop
than you first imagined, and even more time, energy and self-discipline
to implemment on a continual basis. Initial success will be
short-lived without some form of sustained self-promotion or
representation. Networking, (meetings, organising creative partnerships
etc.), is a valuable if not indispensible ally whose rewards
can be substantial, as can its appetite for devouring workshop
time. "What are you creating?" in ancient Greek was
expressed as "What are you fighting?". An independent
creator needs all the qualities of a warrior. Without a fierce
passion for what you do, abundant inspiration, originality,
patience, a burning volition and total dedication, you are going
to be disapointed, and much worse, dissapointing. |
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| Outlets |
| Studio. Visits warmly welcomed by personal
appointment or private views, details of which available by
phone or e-mail. |
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