AMP: Artists' Meeting Place and Resource Collective

I have a great love and respect for the natural because it is the only true and incorruptable power that we have on this Earth (and everywhere else). I have mused that this is why I have an aversion to painting anything man-made.

I have had no formal art training since leaving secondary (high) school. I was made redundant in Truro, Cornwall, from Wheal Jane Tin Mine when the Government withdrew it's subsidy. Anyway there I was in tiny Truro with another 300+ men. There was no way I was going to get a job quickly and I had a young and growing family. So I learned how to acid etch and made my own etched jewellery for sale. It was going great, as I started from 'scratch' and without any real budget. But it came to an end when I had to sell everything because my wife wanted to move to Norfolk, to be near her mother. (Long story break). Since then I have returned to art and I have created works in leaded glass, etched glass, painted glass, and acrylic paint.So I can only create from my own mind and experiences. Maybe that is why I create the images that I do, because I admire Nature and I have had no other influences.

Mother Nature will always have the last word, nomatter what people say and do. That is why I enjoy you positive and creative people, because art gives pleasures in our lives amidst all the greed, destruction and waste.

Peace.