Ever since I was small, I was encouraged to be creative. My parents would save up cardboard boxes for me to build contraptions with. I would cover the kitchen floor with paper so that I could draw a diorama of a theme park on a mountain.
Through school I enjoyed the sciences, maths, english, and most of all; the arts. I spent most of my teen years drawing, painting, creating and of course, playing video-games. I left education at sixteen in 2002 and got a job in retail, forgetting a lot of my creative side.
After managing a small pharmaceutical shop for a few years, I had to do something creative again, so I started a distance learning course in 2005 with the London College of Art, studying Animal Portraiture.
This made me quit working full time and start a HND in Fine Art at my local college, in 2008, via Birmingham City University. During this time I worked as a games tester for Rareware and Microsoft Games Studios, and then freelance doing event photography, web-design, portraiture and other creative pursuits. Fine art turned out to be a little too ‘loose’ for my tastes and I transferred to a BA in Animation, 2009, as part of the Birmingham Institute of Art and Design. |
