These are examples of the painting that I was doing for my degree - hardly relevant perhaps as this was over a quarter of a century ago - I include it as an indication of where I have come from - and for the fun of playing about with the gallery creating software 'Pulpmotion' created by Aqufadas. It has been an interesting exercise looking back over the artistic route that I have taken over the intervening time. I have not painted since, hardly. I spent two years at Uwe doing a post graduate course in printmaking, but otherwise most of my creative energy has been tipped either into teaching, or into the house in which I live. Thinking on that the house that I lived in in Sunderland was very important, and the inspratioin for the paintings. I moved into an empty house over the Christams of my first year. With my parents help I bought the house (£2500) rather than pay rent. The house became both the muse and the subject, as I painted tromp l'oeil on the walls, created furniture from found wood, build myself a workshop, and painted these large canvases - many of which were 6'x8'