Biography
Introduction
Or perhaps an explanation. It seems to me that computer generated images get too little attention in spite of the fact that they are increasingly a part of every visual experience. Like photography once was, CGI seems not to be regarded as a serious art form by those who splash paint on canvas or paper.
In my view that’s an unrealistic position. Creating imaginative images on a computer is just as valid an art form as drawing painting or sculpture. The only difference being that instead of painting with mud or drawing with burnt stick – CGI generates light.
I trained in art in Brighton UK in the sixties but I can’t remember when I didn’t draw or paint or sculpt. It’s in my blood. In my teens I added set and costume design and then photography to my repertoire. Inexorably and perhaps inevitably during my working life words took over from pictures and eventually management and administration took over from all of them. So four years ago I set out to rediscover my art.
Computers have played a large part in my life. I was part of the revolution which saw desktop computers invade the graphics business, first as word processors then as picture editors and typesetting tools until today when virtually every discipline in the media business can be handled from one small box. So naturally as the software developed so did I.
My creative urges involve a mixture of collage, photography, model making, set design and lighting. I also adore theatre and film. For me 3D design on computers more or less satisfies every creative urge, from initial sketch to modelling, rigging, setting, clothing, posing and lighting, then finally clicking the button at the right moment from the right spot.
I make no apologies for the graphic reality of what I create, it is after all the fundamental urge of life.
