I can do that! Drawing

Like many artists Geordie born Stu started his art career as a student of graphic design at Newcastle Polytechnic and like many a student of Graphics left college to do something completely different. In his case to work on a motorway construction site where the powers that be foolishly made him foreman because he'd been to college. After a disastrous six weeks which ultimately ended up in everyone being sacked, he flitted from job to job, (at one point working as a bouncer in a Liverpool night club), until he ended up working on a North Sea Oil related newspaper from where he drifted into magazine journalism. The happiest spell during his journalistic days was when he was the sole male on a left wing feminist magazine called for some strange reason City Girl. When this magazine sadly went down he ended up as the editor of a courtesy magazine in Liverpool called Cameo. Things were going well here until a spectacular crash in the company car caused not a little tension at head office, so in the mid eighties he decided to return to graphic design as a self employed designer. It was during this spell that Stu took up painting again and he had a fairly successful side line as a portrait painter. This prompted him to forgo the life of a designer and concentrate on his art. So he swapped computer based design for a paintbrush - just as the depression started. However he survived on commissions and the support of his long suffering wife. The father of five now lives in the Shropshire countryside where he produces highly detailed drawings and colourful paintings many of which are commissions.