Art and design are the central interest of my life, my passion, and the focus of my own particular skills and talents. I am strongly aware that the appearance of everything that surrounds us in the modern world, from the cars we drive, to the furnishings and fittings in our homes, to the electronic devices that entertain us and allow us to communicate, is the product of the creative design process. I believe that I have considerable creative ability and technical skill, as well as an eye for artistic composition, which are the essentials of the successful designer’s frame of mind and inspiration. I have a love for figurative art, and will always remember my first discovery of the artists of the Renaissance and their revolutionary ability to understand, envision and render the human form with such detail and grandeur. At the same time I love the practical skills I have learnt, in accurate drawing, in carpentry and woodwork, as well as in the use of Photoshop on the computer.