Anthony Bingham

The transformation that takes place in the development of making art - in any form - is something that is never fully understood. Even the artists themselves can find it difficult to articulate the process by which they create - and exactly what their motivation and influences have been. Creators can also find it difficult to explain what it is that drives them to do what they do. In the end you have to accept that the artists have a private mind and what you view is just the result of their secret world.

Anthony Bingham was born in the small seaside town of New Romney, Kent, and was to receive his only formal training at the Northampton School of Art and Design. In the summer of 1980 he gained his diploma and set out on a career in design and advertising. In the late eighties he became a founding partner in a design company serving a mixture of local, national and international businesses. In late 2000 he had resigned from the business, and thereafter undertook contract work.

A few years later he started experimenting with his own unique style of art, as well as, undertaking an art history degree. Interestingly, his early work did not translate into the usual methods of making art with pencils and paper, water-colour or p...

Art History Degree - Open University
Diploma - Graphic Design - Northampton School of Art and Design