Artist Statement

I have always been interested in art, with both my Mum and Grandmother being very artistic, I often found that I wanted to do the work they did. They did most of their art as a drawing / painting medium but neither of them did it as a profession. I did find that art was something I enjoyed and even more so when I started attending Secondary School and took up art and design as an option course for my GCSE’s,

'Final piece idea Art and Design' water colour
and oil pastel 2007 Size: A4

 I had enjoyed the work I did and the projects we did, one such being that were to combine two designs / logo's in any way we wanted and we would then have to produce 3 ideas before choosing one to do on A1 size. During the two years of art and Design I found it was not the area in art that I wanted to work in, I then stated looking into other sectors in art that I might enjoy 

In my last year of secondary school I had started doing images on Photoshop for several community Mods (modifications) teams on games. I was producing forum signatures (which are imaged based), I also produced posters and banners to promote the mod and helped create the template for the website / forum we were using. After doing these images for other people that I played games with I found it was something that I rather enjoyed and wanted to further develop skills in.

'Signature for forum admins' Digital image
2007 300 X 100 pixel

I then started looking into graphic courses at colleges I attended Itchen College’s open day I found out about their Graphic design course and what went on in it. I found that it clarified what I had decided to do previously as a career. I appreciated graphical design for its creativity in day to day usage, something that I did not realise at first. 

Attending college to study graphic design helped me to develop the skills I had learned through experimenting with software, and to understand new ways to create items such as posters, business cards etc. After a few months of attending the course I began to use the knowledge I had learnt to create logos and desktop wallpapers for a game mod that I was interested in. 

Graphic Design 2010 digital image Dimensions 455 X 209 pixel

During my time at Itchen I found that I looked up to my teacher Michael Viana. He was a the type of teacher who would say straight out if an idea wouldn't work and possible different ways to go about deciding on a idea, it was through having him as a teacher that I had finally found what I wanted to do as a career. Through studying Graphics in university I hoe to achieve my goal in creating work that will be recognised by others and help influence others to be interested into what goes on in graphics.

  

Graphic Design 2009 logo Design
Digital image Dimensions  250 X 270

Art and Design 'Photography'
dimensions 3008 x 2000