KEITH VALENTINE

after leaving school started a two year art foundation college course which i ended up leaving at the end of the first year after getting no direction and becoming disillusioned with it all... After that I got a job as a junior in a west end of London creative services studio and from there over the years evolved into a freelance 'jack of all trades' ad' agency studio artist involved in design, typography, creative artwork, lettering, general illustration and eventually visualising and storyboarding. While also for a number of years doing freelance design and cartoons for a major greetings card company... I got hooked on ‘figurative' when i later began studying life drawing and anatomy to improve on my overall drawing and storyboarding abilities, and for the first time in years found a subject that inspired me to start drawing and painting again for myself at home which became and still is an ongoing part time passion.