I was Born in Leeds in 1962 one of five children, I knew from a very early age I found art easy to create, and it became my singular passion. Some of my earliest childhood memories are of my three brothers out playing football or street games, and I would prefer to be indoors with either a pencil in my hand sketching, or my modeling clay shaping it into figures or columned buildings. At infant school I was always the one singled out to paint the more intricate and detailed parts of a picture the class was creating. As I grew older I became more obsessed with detail which is reflected in my...more