About me

My circumstances are as follows:

Firstly I should mention that I appear to have all the requirements that you are looking for with the requisite and necessary skills on a Mac in Photoshop, Quark and Illustrator. I know the print industry forwards and backwards and have plenty of both design and artwork experience.

I presently work for myself and run my own business, which I have done for the past 15 years. Due to recent change of policy resulting in cut backs at the council I have lost a sizeable amount of work which is now being produced in-house by their internal graphics unit. Although I have other sources of work, this account which I've had for a long time has formed the basis of my 'bread and butter work', and paid the bills.

I have made up a mini portfolio in the form of a low res pdf for you to browse through at some stage. The first half is all basically local authority projects and the later commercial work. They are all just covers at this point just to give you a flavour of what I do but if you require either complete samples in print form or as complete pdf documents, please let me know and I'll organise something. In all the work I have supplied the design, photography, artwork and drawn/painted any illustrations you may see plus organised the print (so basically everything including a little copywriting in some cases).

Other than that my personal outline is as follows:

- I'm 54 (but been a commercial artist ever since I left school at 17)

- I can draw (you had to before computers)

- I'm practical as well as creative

- I'm used to working to a budget (or estimating costs)

- I've also been taking photographs professionally for over twenty years

- have been a CD for an agency producing solely ethical pharmaceutical and veterinary advertising

- have been a CD for an agency producing business to business advertising

- have a knowledge and understanding of direct marketing

Anything else you can ask if you're interested.