Portrait of Howard Hodgkin painting in his studio Painting

I was a member of a busy electronic band as a teenager. I left high school in Stafford, England in 1983 and after working with computers and as an assistant surveyor I moved to London in 1987 at the age of 19. I spent 9 yrs working in the construction industry as a site engineer, as-built surveyor and setting out engineer/site manager on various projects including canary wharf and liverpool street station and many other projects. I eventually moved to North Wales in a recession and set myself up with several stalls in the area selling anything from toys, watches, costume jewellery, collectables and many, many other things. In this period I took jobs/projects in Wales,London and Liverpool but the latest recession hitting hard since 2008 and some illness it has been hard for me to see what else I could get in to. This wasn't hard(as have always been interested in art since I can remember) I new I had time and a large kitchen which is now doubled as my studio and got stuck in to the books, paints, canvasses inter alia and started painting.