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ISBN:: 1~89.8998~96,~5
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or talent .. AI
I neser-find
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rM be de!]~.ghled
to' spend the rest of my days eneonraging a man who has found his talent to share
make
be a model
a dancer or
Thankfujly
awriter; perhaps - but I.am not, and never have 'been,mode~. matedat
streamlining and enhancing in a~~ right places, turning back the dock the
with his carefum 'Om:~ssmonsand gentle sculpting
scratches the
anaooomp~ished m iddle to his artistic career, I confident ~y predict that his best work ies shead,
Theimages in this, book are arranged
chIonoliog~ca~~y show how Rays stylleha~ to develeped .. He works fa.qt,makilin,g very few
m~stakes, and has the potentialto be 'i~'ii . ope ,,', ~~ .. .,. . ,.. ' ~IS pr'O~H~c.I he you ~IIII agree l.he ' resll II are worth pursuing,
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Forma.tiva 'Years
1 was a so~itarychild
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happyin a workl of Akfix kits and H umbrol enamel,
cardboard and Se~~otape, oomk':s and fu:UHp pens, Lloved the superhero fi,gures of M,afvei] and DC comicsend
taughtmyseU(o
night, 17 November 1'9J5'9,~n Scunlh(lrpe= my mother, :iin. labour, havingbeen rushed to the hospital in aneighbours
I was young he workedawaya sidecarwith
My fsther had been invalided out of the Roya~. Navywith TB during WW2. When lotasa long-d~.stance lorry driver; thenasa instructor, evrotuaU~ settllrun,gas a gardener, Mum was agralter - alandgir],
a
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VI3~.lreSS,3 cook, a ochoo~ dianer lady = often holding down two or three jobs ,
once
Steve
[0
grandmother's
help,
early rolemodel. On .Dads
My brother, Steve, seven years older thanme, becamemy school .on hismetorbikewhen
1'~
agt! 5..
myseU~ On vrnsmts ome, Steve brought wrnth him books on Pop Art, figure drawing h end Victorian advert~srungart I disc::overedUchretls(ein, Oldenberg and .my particular favoudte, .AID~.erlJones.
and re-size pictures and, with poster
O\Vl1.. mfe.SJ]re
Claus
cUlOUlS
of Supergirl, Catwomen,
Zatanna
and Black Canary I don't remeneber ever painting the blokes, I painredmybedrecen \W.~~s with mllr~s~n5prn.red by Roger Deaaalbum covers, Steve~smonth~y visitsalso
Sane; drew and painted ~ftom(he LP COVell'S ofLou Reed and Bowie, Rexy Mu sicand Led Zeppelin, I ~m~edmy \VOrt~wruthruoonic~m,ages. In contrast, school ~iferu: High Ridge Comprehensise wasreiserable, I know now
that I am dysrnexillc- oommon~y ~abe:~~ed 'stu:pid'~n the early 708-..I s,]mplliy eouldnt
remember dates and names. History geography and French were a nightmare for
me,
'lbu're an .kHO£.Leaning, wh.at are you? .my history teacher ye~~ed.to which I had to
.rep~y,'I'm an idiot, Sk.' I was caned fur having Jong hair..I was thrown out of class
for deodliagend
day dreaming, then caned for being thrown out of'elass My only
ixtn/am.
sanctuary
"WEtS
and Frank Murr.ay, where I was"praised rather than humiliated, Art was the onilly
lessen I looked forward to in thewhole
week's Hmetabme, I did okayin other subject S thai: required observat ional drawrnn,g and I~illustr,arruon ,goom.erry; woodwork,
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dinner
third
Somehow
was rewarded with the long hot SLImmer of '7,6, which I spent tearingareund ona.meped, sw.~m:mitlg, sunbathing, sffi!l.m.ok~ng and ch asing .gillds, dope
.r
Srn,gningup for shah form.at John Leggett, I found I wa~n1:~mO\Vedto do just Art A,"~evel], SO added botany and zoo~o,gyto my tjmetable - lots of drawinglots
~filB~d trips and ahnost of
spn-ited lady,
but must have despaired at having to teach somany hormones on heat. I remember airbrushin .. a series of g huge ~ipstkk:ed ~~ps wrapped arounda shinyapple ...
Withmy partnerjn crime, the dark and .~ove~yue S Rychmak, I painted murals in the sixth form smeking room. (those were the daysl), where fdlbw artists played krn~merdarts, smoked roll-ups and weed, Uktedand
smouldered. 1 passedmy bike test and traded in my l250c for bigger.more powerful engines, And I fe,n~n ~ove with blonde bombshell Barbara.a sexy; sa~
to become .mywilife
Under!landin g the 9celeton is crucial for figu1'2 dmwing. Grim.:J.:r.ls r:eident .'lkele(o}1was a maw pat.imt life model.
Biro & pendl, 1979:, The summer of 78 lworked down the Steelworks as a furnace 'Wrecker and labourer - 12 hours a day, sever]
agrJ,
days, a week, wililh 'Hanson's Gorillas' ..It \VaS filthy work in the o~.'~y, and. disturbing bowels of the dark mechanicsl ~evru,athan that 'WaS the stee)]oorks, The
furnaces ran day and night, shutting down only 'Once a year - stop fortnight
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de-greaseand steam-clean the yearsacaimuleted .grrume. In the furnaees.with s!I]J1!a~~ jack-hammers, we knocked off the OOfaill1J.!TIJk~~:n~n.g bricks and harrowed
them 'Out so that the hli.dd,ayers coukl re-line them .. The furnaces were sdU ooolnig so it was ]5m~nutesil~ 20 minutee QUt. We were sent down the gll~~eys under the rding racks to elean out the steel]shale endgrease, And we squeezed through access harchesjntonaassae
Fh'St life drawing da,wzs at Grim.I}Jy Schad oj Arl~ with malel~lnme, 1979~
the sand after a practkal joke by rome of the regular' labourers ..Hell of a way to earn. drinking money It was. outrageous, But the proceeds. helpedme new bronze and go~d Triumph Bonneville, 0 h joyl'
to purchase
3 brand
dai~1y p.~.~gr.rn.flrlM!geH) new h.().~y; life Room, Irene was the subjectend the the Todd my new deity: Astride our woodenher
Peter
lesent the an of academic drawing, We drew from the .model], the skeleton and the
antique (various Greek and Roman plaster casts), We weee lHU,gtlt to draw whru we
saw I learnedto
.D rm~.4ngfromthe
Bvenings I worked as.a barman at The Priory Hotel; full of rockers. and newly emergillngpunks, leather and ~y{:ra, PVCand p~.a(rnnumblondes, Saturday night was a ]
reguler ruck dance with the Steve Bird RDooshowwhich oomsi\ona~lliy degenerated
into a saloon bar brawl with breeking chaies and boor borde mmssmes, Manya dusky
damsel I rescued from the fray and rode home on the Triumph ,at the end o-f the
night, What agentlemaa!
Sr;untMI1Je Stwtiw(Jrks
me
HVIllly
fromfurther
educationand
br/olTe denMJi.ition.
was working as.a crane driver; It was wd~. paid work and cleen, So I took (he various
driving tests and joined the crew ,ruNormanby Park Bill~~et M~U as an overhead crane driver; The workwas fun - loading 7 (on steembars onto na.~way wagons, .~ift~n,g scrap pans, pu~~m,g red-hot 'cobb~es~ fmm the mouth ofthemilf (when bars are being
rd~ed, sometiraes they miss and twisr ~~kerubber, jamming the m~.~~, thus mbbl!es~) and drawingto k~.~~. dOVil1 tjme, DWIUY and 1 spent a year decorating themess the
roorawitha
and chess and became firm friends, On days off we airbrushed carsand vans and bikes Danny has sincemade a: successful career ofhis soi-:lipaintmgs andillustrations Barbara and I moved into a bedsa fora few months and then into a Uat above a hairdressersin Berkley Street waha couple of cats. I sertledinro aroutine of shifiwork andwas earning good money ("79 was, thelast time I\Wl:.~ flush), ..And then. came; the
sled strike, When Normanby Park M~m~.fi:na~~.y dosed, rome wag painted, 'Last one out nun off the ~w.ghts~ 6 foot letters high up on the end of the m~U, in
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Ju Ira SFlC Pa rk
After month s with no money I ltd
£0 'WaS
taken on by A[t.~.saiir
convincing finish, From a 7 ft Pretecerateps I worked np caravan park on the shores of loch Ness, But there wasnt months at ht~sair~ company went the
a huge ca~~for full-scale dinosaura.Afterll
Behind with the rent, I sdd .my Bonnie to help pay for our wedding, lwenr back
to puUrnngpints, this timein the Working Me<rIS Club wrulhru(s Hammond organ. and bingo, dominos and bar b~n~ards.I painted pub srngnsand sprayed cars, did signwr.~Hngandairbrushed motorbikes, When. I conklnt find anything
H)
paiot lgor
stoned ..The hrngh~.rnght of the week. was Kenny Everett~s Hot Gossip on the box. I was
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envelopes
to the
(he draughras people passed by..The tutors. moved it, lasked W be transferred, Next lwas putin Pdintmrudng\Vhich I did enjoyand learnt the traditional skruUs.o-£
~tl
becan se
jt
over~.ook~n.,gthe fact that at an abstract, expressioni stlend scape cd~ege,my for f~gurat.hre: .~m,a.ge,.~ (he fem,aru.eorm. wouldgo of f
ba~~oon. V~Hh~ng tutor Karl Weschke added to my 8didgrou:nd~ng~n ru~fe ire
drawing, but otherwise tutoring at Exeter was nr1JJ~nrnma~at est and destruethe at b
worst. Atl.-e.gnlar critiques, both my subject matter and ~ru.rurulls{ratkm.3rtreatment derided and I retreated to the life Room wkhmy confidence in shreds" were
I found drawing from the nude: exdtrnn.g, bue not arousing, Constant scrutiny of ked _ ,·d:·· "';~I • nd .ern~l!Ie,young nd ,~Id· m. ~III'I Salapesan.nd si ...\, CUwtuI... ,a . th e na·QU b 0 y. ('m!:l!lean. f . ~II ' ".," " . an . ow_, ,'i' ,!:I!IW .1 .. srnze .. 11·00···· . ')y
ream appreciaion
fascination for female fashion ~. clothes that focusattention on the: differences between the sexes, and fet~sh fashion which tokes these subtle messages to extremes, .1df::l-myed this paint.ing,( and other~j
Vi .itin g tuto«;
after ,it was .iarnmed .by theext:emal (JAV!.W)r as 'aude; banal nJbbi!Aj~
Unfinhhed oil on mnva~ 19:83.
Pencil
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n pa par, .~ 984
15
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, "10' ,II X",,
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1",,0'4 ~ ,; )10.
Of aU the paintinf}$.1 prrxluced of Sarah. this i s nry favoo rite. My tutors advised me na to
exhibit this piece in n;ryfinal degree.. WtJiV~ 0;1 m amll~ 42'1 x 42'n .19'84.
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Painti ng on ltXution at
Pa.~ettesof Passon
Stubbornly I continued
by chcosingen Alli~enones' painting, 'WeI Sea!l.'for a reconstruction project. Allen J Jones was a modem artist I coukl relete to".l found his werk intriguingand ihspruring
- taking images of the masculine and feminine and turning them intoicons,
One brru.ght spot in the Viiho~e xeter episode was a. month's study Imp ['0 Tuscany E
and Umbria in the summer before my finEd year".A dozen art studentsin Italian vrumrnEt Itwas the fiirst time I had beenabroad a Transit
intense colour I could see in the shadows I wanted to move [0 Italliy". I st:~~~o" d Pr:nci l & cdoo r Mudies of 1ulie~1984.
Returning to cd~ege
irrla
The Prospect pub in Exeter to bring jn some cash, wondering how on earth to make a ~~vnng S an artist .. S(~~~ a.' stewing in my obsession with how to depict seXll.~~ty and
sensua!lHy; my finel dissertation shop window mannequjns 'Just A Dum. my,.... "? looked at [he history andart of =~dearnillsed figures, desrngnoo tohnpert their seductive
opening a gallery qf
WrMerll1 ArL
.1 nev~' hmrd
Maniagi oil on 36
lt
(WtP~
qualaies to the clothes hung on them ...Aillthongh I'd had enough of oon~, I sensed I was just starring to get somewhere with my painting
36!t~ 1983.
as (he
OOLlf8e
came to an end.
StifpOitlai.t~ .16
iP
oil en a»1:vas;,
30": .19:83.
I graduated jn Pine .11,1"t Painting in. ] 984. The fi:nam degree show cameandwent leaving a void of despondency What on earth was I going to do nOw?M the last minute Iapp~~ed ~fora one year post graduate teaching course in Br~.ghton. Barbara had found a job she enjoyed.
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,rm:v~
36''' x 36n~1983.
Road wrnthfive other dysfunctionals, I stokmmk from doorsteps for breakfast, w,alked m~~esto arid ~from. o~~ege o and .ived on. bOMS efriceand soup in the esenings, By day I attendedlectures and taught art .FU secondary schools - an esperienee I found
daunting, I wanted to lake the kids back [0 basics and teach them how (0 draw But Ftliutrated with rolleg~ .1 ~yxnr much if my final
yeaJ"
art :~nthe eighties 'WaS becoming voeatienal - I WHS ha.vrn:ng [each craft, desjgn to technology plastics and met aruoork.When I wasasked to teach geographyas \Ve~ru, I resolved (0 fillnrushmy cHpruomaand find something else te do .
I bare~y coveredmy rent by pumping gas ,at a service ststion on the seafront, and pulfing pints, this time in Busbys nightclub, I did se~~a few oi oomwi1J!ilissrnons, I btu had rnilitUelme to' paintand t Ofl~~ a few dra'IMl1,gs, and painrmgs sLlrvrnve from. this H.m.e. Then Barb rarq~from Bxeterro say she was pregnant.
canvas 48
48"~ 19'84.
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A~~ Chanqe
I hireda van, picked up Barb,
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f1~nan.c~aUywewere~l.l dire straits, My brother Steve was by this time an art editor with the publisher Marshsll
Cavendishin london .. At Eaaer, I met him and his
colleaguessnd
ofmy predicament, I started at MCas a ju nier designer soon after. Thus began the long commute
At last there was money oornFng~n ,and Barbend I got a mortgage Qua two-bed VL!ctodan terraced house, We started there with a bed, a baby and a couple of deck chairs, I~eft the house ·at ,6.3n~mand come hack through the door at 7.30pm and this became the pattern for the next seven {CICtiet .D~r:e; pendl.
19'88~ later wxycirxl Jor
years. I became a father ~furthe second timein 19,90.. Pa¥nt~ng hnd[a~~ed I wflsufmnruJ]y man wmthalnortgflge me.
and a career, 1 had no energy left forflft.
Grap he D'esigln
I enjoyedgraphic
ranks,
I\MQS .hl
partwork for a couple 'Of yearsbefore developing thelook of new partwerkslike The Great Cities and Out & AbrMt, Marsh.a~~ Cavendishhad some 300 staffand freelancers in themid 80s, Carol was one of them, But she was young and srnn,~eand treated the flirtatien s of ,3 marriedmen with good-natured put downs. Little did \¥e know that 10 years down theIine wed be together;
After the ne~apers,
Me was one
new technology and I happjly exchanged OO\V gumend Letraset fo["an App me Mac, I have been ruM.,gar:.~n,gm.y ayaroundvarious w software packages ever saice, During this time I worked Elsa postaill.utor ~forThe Open College of the Arts, t
taking lubes ofwork fn)m correspondence encouragement Commuter mute into thenightand students, marldngit, wr~trnng words of pesting .Hback the fo~~ow\in,g day: For the
fci I on mnv~
1(86)
Study Club I formed the Movru,g .Air Club jn a dedicated carriage on the and a baill~etdancer; And, during this .a~~ this tiene, my
executives, accountants
continuity publisher with a large new development team .. l worked on a~~. orts of subjects, deve~op~ngmnilin~y for s
the ,Anl.edcan market indud~:ng::Hfftllth &
FitrU3);'
joined
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Oil on canvas
Fre sh S: B. rt
].995 \W,S.a m.ajormnlru:rl.g point in my l~feand for my act. I 1\eftmy wife andmoved rnnwith Caro~, who had ~eft herhu sbandand was, sharing a ilatrnn Battersea Square. W ithout the demend s of fan~~y~~fe andwith the presence ofa very desilirab~eoom,an COO!:1JJehe need to capture the sensualliityefthemement. t The desire to draw and to paint came flooding back. Imademyfirst~ife parnntmng of Carol 'Nol". Her
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HavingaJive model who was wirn~:rnngto pose for hours on end wasfiberating, Having b8Jrel~touched a brush ina decade, I
surprised to findmy workhad
rn.mproved,.I put this down to years ofgr.aph~cs honing my visual ski~~.s,. painted I
directly onto the canvas, just describing in paint what I\'WS. seeiag ..Larerpaintings became more centrolled ~ less urgency .a~~owingme
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Publishing had beenjn decline fur rome rime, and in 1'9;SH5 Carol and I
were made redundant, Card had a baby a monrbJerer (NumberThreeif
youre counthig)
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C,aro~ine
Whileworking there with photographer Jeff Carroll lwas introduced to
a fabulous couple from the ongiaafLondon autumn fedsh scene ~ Sebastiaaand
furiously for the next sixmonths, Caroline kindly offered tomodel fur
me and became the in spiration for sever,alIpaintings aad drawngs,
.M Erotica, I was offered £10,000 for 'Caro~ine? by a man wearing very expensive shoes, He wanted 10 pick her up the :fo~~o~.ng weekand asked where my ,gaUerywo.s., When I explained that I wasnt with a
,grill~ery end worked frum home in Peckham, he just turned and wslked .away., I didnt want to. sel]m her an Y\WlY But ~tdoes beg the questien.js !
art on~y of ¥alline~frut~s sokl by a Cork 9:reet ga~~ery willth a whopp~ng price t~ on~t?No,~t~soorthwhat someone is prepared to pay fOr~t.
Fmm this painting ~ produced our first fiillne.hr Trade Gujld registered ~:~mruted edition print (£0 [he consternerjon of some GIJ~~dmembers),
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Oil on c anvas 1,4f~' x 3'6'~'
1'997
of Caroline
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II Oil on eanvas 1,2~'x 3'6~'1997
Bf2ade-
Sru~kBlack Leather' demonstrates this point as, I wok pictures of rnI at various stages; the pencil drawru.ngon primed canvas; the skin tones washed inwith white spiritsnd.a
hint of burnt umber and cadmium, red bindingin
ike(!, the looseness of the intermediate stages, but once the o~~paint is
app~:~ed as with watercolour ~ there's nogoing back. I can never decide ~ when a pieceis finished ~- the more h~gh,~illghtsand ~,ow]~gtltsand detail
I add, the
less painterlyandmere
someti meslosing
Scmet;m~'J dad
ai m f.or a true
likm(jJ.;)· but ,u&t het !rutunts as a bas: from, which tv ,a~mfe different looks
once a fortnight
her best friend comes round and tak:esaru.~ clothes off 00 you can look her
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Going public with 'my art wasaneree-waeking experience, but also a lot of fun, The ..
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very first Erotica eshibition in November '97 brought the fetish scene outin forcedressed to party When I and .my friend Mo Pong (17~stone biker) stood on the stand
~ikea couple of hired heavies, buyers seemedinrimidated. So ~~e:ft Caroland her sistee; Hazel in char,ge and sat ih the nearby cme, people watchicg
It soon become dear how difficult itrus
contactwah
IO
cover our stand costs at the Jiirst show, hut lwas over\Vhelm,ed\M1lh~nterest,made many new modekand s,],gned a few private commissions, So many up With
SU!(lfl
& Stephen
poop le commented that they moved .~ilJJycanvases but had no waill~,space big enough to hang them, thatafterwards I djd produce some 8Jma~1ler anvases..I have since [ended c to concentrate on my pencilwork because I can try
different ideaswithout the oomm:~tment to time that
the paintings demand ..Bur I've become increasiling~y obsesshewith detail in 'my drawings SO I do enjoy
working the expansiveness ofbjg canvaseswhen I can.
Crunch
I didnt gel a chance (0 Jo~~ow those early leads, Two up weeks after EroHca lwasknocked off my Bennie on
Great Suffu~kStrect,~n broad da~rnghtby White Van Man ..He hadno tax orinsurance, 11aturaU.y.. On. the
up-side, ('WQ paramedics werejuS( around the corner and fourwirnesses were stood drinkingtea om side
Chasbikes Motor-cyd.e Workshop. On the down-side, the police ~ostthe peperwork! It putme out of'action for six weeks and sermousl]y dented our finances,
Lturnedgreyslmest
because 'of~t, lhad no new work to showat Erotka's nd ··"L.]'b~i~1 tne to ;'i . M·· .' . secon . exninmon. ." I "··IT,,II O\V!I!ng ay, b ut \.\38
I
persuaded to take a ~]ot~tl the .ht GaUery \ID.ere I have exhibited ever since - now as a member of The Guild ofErotic .Art~.sts~a co-op of ~ruke~nrrurunded, stubborn optirnJl!ilists determined
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ErOlkri's Chairman,
showgurnde hasgradualfy evo~.vedinto amagazne. Puttingit together each aut umnisa labour oflove But we can for the two of us.. By the time itgoes to press, three weeks before the show, wereknackered. say,wruth straill.,ghtmces, when asked at dinner parties
'What do yon do? that we test se.x toys for a living, Eroticais our public face (the only time I come om
am~year),
Exhibitionsare
.Ringma!lr!J;
SdJmtian
trots
ourselsesfor the best one, Most of the European adult shows run off the back of the pom industry,
hasa.place for
keep the kids fora 'Week. Our very good friends Stephen and Slsnn Van Sooyoc: gruve up Eroricaueekend exhib~.~orsand
ShanJ,e1~'plugfor the
every year to hempman the stand so that we can check out new productsend gather material for thefo~~owft1.,ge.:'1f~showgurude. y s
fJ,uphia s.de
oj the
bu.ine!U.
Top TotUe
Lmustalso mention Andrew and Emma Dempster, A couple of years .ago, Andrew
COLIr(
got bored exhibiting withan eq uestrisn rerailer at The Horse Show in Earls andsbsconded to Erotica. He tracked me dewntoaskif'he could transfer print one of my paintings onto his Ducati. later, heintroduced me to Tottie -a clothing brood (hat sponseredan ,aU.~fema~e polo teOO1. Thus my polo prints were born, In September 2003, .my father died suddenly I drove north
meavrnng Carolia
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charge of the
of the year; Card calledin childcare favours from the localMother's M,af~a, and Bmma cmne ,ga~~op~ng to her rescue as chauffeur and fashion sty!iJ].st.Where would we bewithout farni~yand good friends?
us wh~ce
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Fd draw her.
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a fet~sh to
yearsa;g()
I ,arumo st
faseination fer
d~.freren.resben.veenmenoo.d
women (useful when selectinga
breeding partner}. Fetish dothing works by targeting and .h~gh~.~.ghtirng these differences. A woman has less body hair thana mrul; tskeit aw.ay completelyand she becomes even. more' woman,
Add sroddngsto crane a s,]llky supeu-skirt" Shrink -wrap her in ~,ar:exand bu ff to a hlgh ,gW.o&~ sheen to take this 'One step further. A women has a narrower waisr, so the constricrion
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produce quality prints of mywork and hjgh resolution scanning and ,archmvfllgmeans I can now 'print on demand' a range of ,gjc~6eopen edition prints These open editions have proved a very popularaddition to the exrus{~ng~mHed ~ editions printed by tradjtional drylaho. I now have ccllecrors from USA, Canada, Holland, France, Germany; Sweden, Geneva and Australia, Many girls now approach ..me via email.usking to' model forme ..The professional models ,arema~n~YMl1JJerrucrtnand Canadian .. If I cant rake my o\Vn reference SiH)IS then I a~w~ ask for permission from the photographer invollved,and there's no payment invo~ just ,good'lMn and some free sili,gned prints ...And themodel gets to usemy iml1JJ,£I,geher on herwebsite, of so everybody is happy,
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~fi'om past drawing experience if rm working just from photographic references, BUI skerchru.ng from lne sittingsisa rare luxury I now use a. Nikon d~gili.ta]asmyadditional 'Sketchbook', This has. meant freedom 10 draw poses that woukl previously have been
~mpo&~]b~eormy~ong-suffer.~ng model to hekl fur any length of time ..Standing ~n f
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and BDS!if, I have·evohred. a.fascination for the poser-play berween the dominant perron.aJtityand the submissise, The
classic roles of deminetrix aod sillave with .a~~ their mukirude
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