Having spent the last 30 years or so devoting most of my time to the "music business" I decided enough was enough and it was about time I got back to the thing I really love
PAINTING.
A good grandfather saw early promise and gave me a set of oil paints when I was 10 years old and I began to do paintings just like his ,landscapes usually, but also people , houses, castles, but mountains and lakes were my favorite.
I began to experiment with a kind of photo realism that journaled my life, and experimented with halucigens too , so that changed things to a more colorful and abstract style.
I became a degree student at The Hornsey School of Art in 1976 after a foundation course at Barking technical college of all places {incidentally, this is where I saw the Sex Pistols play at our christmas party in 1975 in a pub in East Ham,before anyone else saw them really , and it changed my life!]
At Hornsey school of art in 1976 the first thing they said was STOP PAINTING!. Painting was dead and it was the time of "conceptual" art. So I went along with the whole thing and stopped painting, did some conceptual performance things and this led me to the experimental music studios in the college where I discovered Synthesisers and a four track studio and my interest in painting waned and took a back seat .
My new passion became sound , recording and performing and this led to a post punk band called The MONOS! Then a new romantic band called Victims Of Pleasure. I made records with both bands but had no commercial success. In the meantime I had learned about recording music and became a studio recording engineer in 1982.
Life followed on and I had children , got divorced ,became a teacher of music technology in 1990, a job I have done since,until in May 2006 I made the decision to paint again and give it all my energy and commitment.

1974 1963

In another lifetime... some of my favorite music: Monos, Victims of pleasure.

HaHa!

COMEDY is the new Rock n Roll!
Mock the week
Q.I
Tony Hancock..the Artist, Spike Milligna, well known spelling error,Peter Sellers, Monty Python,good old British comedies.
Laughter eases the pains of life...try to laugh every day..all day.
Spinal Tap...dunno, what are the hours?