I was lucky enough to have John Vernon Lord as my personal tutor and in addition we also had the dry wit of Raymond Briggs and Justin Todd enlivening the fortnightly crits.
Harold Cohen was another great asset to the course as was Clive Chizlett. I remember Geoffery Treneman and Gerald Woods who always seemed to appear as a duo and in a wonderfully weird way with their faintly regretful demeanor and saturnine appearance, looked like a couple of undertakers. They were however both passionate in their pursuit of illustrative excellence.
The three years seemed to whiz by, in a blur of macrobiotic food, marijuana, the Pre Raphaelites and the Velvet Underground. Great days indeed - I still miss them!
Since leaving Brighton I have worked as a freelance illustrator across a wide variety of mediums and applications. Aside from book illustration, my work has included editorial commissions, packaging, in-store displays, comic strips, 48 sheet posters, storyboarding for TV commercials, styling, layout and background work for animation studios, web design. In fact, pretty much anything involving illustration.
