Hello there. It seems that I recently, inadvertently deleted this page after deleting a few old blog pages and so I have had to rewrite my biography from scratch.

I am a British national, currently living and working in Budapest as a freelance teacher of English as a foreign language. I have a Trinity Tesol certificate in Teaching English as a Foriegn Language, gained in March 1996 at Goring College of Education, Goring on Sea, plus a 7301 Certificate in Teaching from Brighton College of Further Education, completed in 1995.

I was born in 1959 in Southampton, England and graduated with a degree in English/Italian literature from the University of Warwick in 1981 - at a time where there were 500 graduates to 1 job. Thatcher was at her most strident in promoting Victorian values and the work ethic, but only in relation to what the State deemed as valid ways to become a worthy citizen, whilst kicking away any means for many people to do this. So for many years I made a point of being creatively and gainfully unemployed - with varying levels of success in several ventures and areas of interest. For more details of these (mis)adventures, so check out my account titled 'Full-time Dreamers'

Perhaps the most important achievement to come out of this was the creation of a full 78-deck of Tarot cards along with a 40 000 booklet which took 10 years to complete. The major arcana have now been published in a limited edition for collectors of Tarot artwork, details of which can be found at the bottom of my tarot pages.

Most of the Artwork you can see on these pages here, however, is abstract. It consists of a form of psychic automatism, in which the images come to me as a subconscious/psychic process, an explanation which I suspect will not please the post-modern coterie that dominate most ideas of What Art is Supposed to Be nowadays. However, I have had enough rejections from that world - and witnessed the contempt in which others known to me have been treated, along with their work - to have gone past the point of caring. Let us just say now that not doing any artwork at all is much worse than being creative and running always the risk of being trivialised or vilified (it did once happen in this fair city) and just call it soul work. A definition I choose guardedly. The work involves using mixed-media, either in the form of collages on paper, or on board using raw materials ranging from fabric pieces and wax to glass fragments. Currently, I have helped put together the First Annual Online Remodernist Exhibition: one of my pieces is also exhibited here. The remodernist movement certainly seem to be one that is disenchanted enough with Breton's urinal and starving dogs to wish to return to alternatives where 'soul work' of any kind might be a little more at home.

Returning to the more conventional CV format of this kind of page: I have a diploma in Fine Arts from the Leamington College of FE Leamington Spa, 1985, and a Certificate in Course Materials from Coventry University, 1987. Both courses were part-time. Whilst living in Coventry, I exhibited in both joint and solo exhibitions with a group of artists based in Hillfields, Coventry, where I was also based. My three solo exhibitions were all hosted in a small gallery above an artshop in Spon Street, Coventry. The first, in 1989, was called 'Vistas,' the second, in 1992, 'Magma,' the third, in 1998, 'Pearl in the Oyster.' In 1994, after moving to Brighton, I also exhibited with a gallery called The Bear Cave and showed my worked in various cafés and similar venues throughout the city. My first exhibition in Budapest was held in a community centre in the 11 District in 1998. In 2002 there was also an exhibition at an art gallery in Vác, whilst currently, examples of my work are still on view at the Berlitz Language School at Bajczi Zsilinszsky 29, and at the VAM Design Centre gallery in Váci Utca 69.

Before leaving the UK, I also used to read the cards and set up astrological charts at diffrent venues all over the country. I also taught astrology as a basic course over a period of two years between 1991 and 1993 at Coventy University as an accredited Open Studies course and successfully completed a ccorrespondence course in astrology in the mid 80's. For more information, you can follow the link here to my Astrological Pages

Finally, there is more artwork for your to view, as well as my sweet 'bedtime stories' Poison Quill section. Here you will also be able to read reviews of any books or music that come within the umbrella of the definition of 'gothic.' Enter of your own free will....

Other interests of mine include science fiction as well as gothic and enjoying a good glass of red wine.

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