1990 to date
Self-employed artist, illustrator, designer and teacher, working
for a wide range of clients. I paint murals and carry out other
commissions for private individuals, and also work as a graphic
designer and typographer for a number of companies. In my work
I use traditional craft techniques as well as the latest versions
of professional software applications such as Adobe Ilustrator,
PhotoShop and QuarkXPress. Among my recent clients are publishers
such as Dorling Kindersley and W Foulsham (book covers, illustrations
and storyboards), Mac Recruitment Consultants (contract artwork),
Lambrook Haileybury School (teaching, designing magazine, stationery,
leaflets, prospectus), Procter and Gamble (caricatures, storyboards,
design for print and interactive media), and The Syntax Group
(architectural perspectives, illustrations, exhibitions and brochures).
1988—1990
Head of Graphics Department for Blissett MacDonald Associates,
based in Windsor. This involved working closely with the architects
and interior designers in the practice, and I was responsible
for all the signage, printwork, brochures, exhibitions and presentations
relating to clients' projects as well as those of the company
itself. As a result of the 1990 recession the company ceased trading
and I decided to return to self-employment.
1983—1989
Design Consultant, Dubai, United Arab Emirates. My clients included
local companies such as the Kanoo Group and the Dubai International
Trade Centre as well as international ones like Shell, Ogilvy
& Mather and J Walter Thompson. I worked a lot with local
interior designers such as Fitch and Co, Bamboo and Design Unit.
1982—1983
Joint Creative Director of Impact/BBDO in Nicosia, Cyprus. Worked
on Johnson Wax, Gillette, Pepsi and other pan-Arab accounts for
the agency driven out of Beirut by the civil war.
1980—1982
Creative Director, SSC&B:Lintas Middle East, Dubai, UAE. Developed
writing, planning and administrative skills working for international
clients such as Unilever International and Shell Petroleum, as
well as local clients like Motivate Publishing. Taught a weekly
drawing class at the Art Society.
1978—1980
Freelance Designer, London. After ten years I had had my fill
of big international agencies and endless meetings, so I applied
what I had learned to small clients like Sheed and Ward Publishers,
Sunwheel Organic Foods and Foster & Knowles Advertising (of
Wandsworth).
1977—1978
Senior Art Director, Allen Brady & Marsh, London. Accounts
worked on included Scottish & Newcastle Breweries, Johnson
Wax, Domecq and Woolworths.
1972—1976
Senior
Art Director, Benton & Bowles, London. Again I worked on Procter
& Gamble, but also on IBM, ITT, General Foods and Grattan
Warehouse in press, print and TV accounts.
1970—1972
Art
Director, Grey Advertising, London. Started working on TV advertising,
and specialised in Procter and Gamble business.
1968—1970
Junior
Art Director, J Walter Thompson, London. I was hired as a print
specialist, and broadened my range to cover press advertising.
1967—1968
Designer,
assistant to Willy de Majo, Chelsea-based design consultant, veteran
of the Festival of Britain and President of ICOGRADA, the international
design organisation.
1964—1967
Visiting
lecturer and external examiner for High Wycombe College of Art.
I started up an in-house design department for Bradley's the Printers.
At first it was in their letterpress plant in Reading, and then
in their Parsons Green litho plant. I worked closely with the
compositors, machine minders and bookbinders, while training assistants
in the design department.
1960—1963
I worked
during vacations in the Display and Cardboard Engineering Department
of Gillette at their head office in Brentford, Middlesex and for
the London advertising agency Pritchard Wood and Partners.
1960—1964
Studied
under Professor J Antony Betts at the University of Reading School
of Fine Art, graduating with a 2:1 BA (Hons), having specialised
in Printmaking, Typography and Book Production. The professor
had studied drawing with Walter Sickert, who had studied with
Edgar Degas, so the school was very much part of the grand European
tradition.
1952—1959
Educated
at Blackfriars School Llanarth and Laxton, obtaining 9 O-Levels
(English Language, English Literature, Geography, French, Latin,
History, Maths, Art and General Paper) and 4 A-Levels: (English,
French, Latin and Art).
1947—1952
Educated
at St Edward's College and The Royal Naval School, Malta.
