Student Life
As foundation students we were taught to draw, think, and develop a healthy disregard for our lecturers. One liked them all but could debate their views as well as our own. A big jump for an ex-public-school boy aged 16 in 1970.
Braintree College.
The Ceramics Workshop was on the top floor where the windows are wide open to ventilate the fumes and heat of the kilns out of the room. 1971.
To study art at the time London was the most obvious. It allowed such freedom to talk and visit other colleges, meet artists and then there were the galleries. At 18 being a student in London was remarkable, I learnt much more than art and still many friends and contacts still survive.
Life After.
Life after college was fun, a challenge at times to be creative, continue to expand ones mind and earn a living that allowed such freedoms. It was a rollercoaster that at times left one near breathless. Though overall some good work came out of it. Some of that was art. I have been driven to work in all areas of understanding, the sciences and looking for solutions to world and local problems in the environment, nothing that is brought to my attention will be examined and if feasible solutions are accessible advanced as solutions. Through science I return to art in its many forms and methodologies. I mix and match ideas and methods reworking and recycling much of what I have cast off in the past. No scheme is nor picture need be lost, it might take time for it to reach a satisfactory conclusion. That is life.
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