Fairways School, Swanwick

Southsea

Education

When he sat down in front of the 'assesor-of-strength', he said in a bristling voice, "If you read cowardice in me, I'll cut you down with a single blow!" - Hagakure I believe that the arts are connected, that each process and the respective mental and physical faculties they employ overlap and complement one other. Perhaps art and life are also connected in this way. In practice this means that I seek to communicate and connect with people through art rather than just make something beautiful or clever. After all, life and art are expressed in the same forms: image, object, word, action, sound; five manifestations of the unseen aspects of existence. Perhaps the best creations are