in the uk

college work

I completed a two-year foundation course at Winchester School of Art before studying for a Diploma in Art & Design at Chelsea School of Art, Manresa Road, London. I sketched many London landmarks as a student at Chelsea including St Batholomew’s and St James’s Palace. My graduation project – Canterbury Pilgrimage – was the beginning of a future in the compilation and visualization of publication ideas and flowcharts, as well as explanatory illustrations in my professional career as an editorial designer. My early childhood interest in drawing and my time at college combining the study of graphic design with illustration led to commissions for newspapers, books and other media. About a year after graduating from Chelsea School of Art, I did some illustrations for the Sunday Times newspaper, and later other publishers. My contact at the newspaper, an old college friend, put me in touch with someone at the Reader’s Digest Association in London. On the strength of these illustrations and my graduation project about pilgrimages to Canterbury, I was taken on to work as a designer on the Treasures of Britain publication. Working for five years with experienced art editors, copy editors and ex-journalists from Fleet Street helped enormously in developing my editorial design skills.