As with many people, I had always liked art as a child and as they grow in school. I continued my formal art education at the Central Saint Martins College in London and continue to learn every day in the study. The Foundation is a course very interesting and enjoyable year, but I struggled with some aspects of the course and at the time, I was to pursue a career in art. I had enjoyed the freedom, spontaneity and escapism of painting and the manner in which I could lose myself in the creative process. I did not know how to talk about my work and to an extent that I did not want, I prefer people to make their own decisions and take what they want from my job and not telling me what to think and see. In discussing, dissecting and, to some extent, justifying what I was doing just seem alien and disturbing to me.
After the spell at art in college I was doing a degree in economics and a job in banking and I did not pick up a paintbrush for many years.
It is a prolonged period of travel that rekindled my love of art. They are constantly exposed to the beautiful, charming, strange, evocative, provocative, bewildering time environments and with the proper mindset to appreciate and reflect on them is a definition of experience. While traveling, my camera was my artistic outlet as he tried to capture the elements of my new and exciting environment. As I got home, removed the dust off the palette and paint in an attempt to recover some of the sights and the feelings of my time abroad. I quickly realized how much it had lost the creation of art and have not looked back since. It has not always been easy since then, but I never regret giving another chance to art, regardless of what the future may hold.
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