Jonathon Lai-Jenkins

I have always picked up a pencil, pen whatever was at hand, found a piece of paper and drawn. This continued for years until I finally decided to develop this skill into something, during the time when I was sorting myself out after leaving school I enrolled into a string of course, one of which granted me skills in Digital media.

I enrolled at Design and Arts college in Christchurch New Zealand, there I not only got to expand my drawing & digital media skills I also got to experiment with other mediums such as paints (oil and acrylic) and photography, basically I was taught to work across mediums and into different disciplines. I graduated with Advance Diploma of Fine Arts. I was accepted onto the final year through Whitecliffe college of arts and design in Auckland New Zealand, and graduated with a Bachelor of Fine arts.

I graduated from Design and Arts in May 2010, a few months before the first Major earthquake hit my home town 4th September. On the 22nd of February 2011 I was attending the first workshop at Whitecliffe in Auckland, family and relatives "encouraged" me to stay in Auckland, where I lived for that year in my Fathers living room with my Fiancee (we were wed that same year) while I completed my final year. ...