Edinburgh College of Art 1985 - 1988: Early Work

I studied Drawing and Painting at Edinburgh College of Art from 1985 - 1990, obtaining and degree and a post graduate diploma. I chose Edinburgh as I thought it would be the best place to learn to draw the figure, so as to make me a better comic illustrator. However, during this period, there was a resurgence of Scottish narrative figuration, mainly from Glasgow School of Art (Steven Campbell, Ken Curry, Peter Howson). This gave me the licence to make big comic book frames as legitimate art and so my narrative style begun to emerge. These crude pictures did not go down well with my tutors at Edinburgh as they held very little painterly aesthetic and it was not until began to take on some of this Edinburgh aesthetic, did my work begin to find favour. I still like, however, the direct link my pictures had then, with my artistic heroes, who were comic book artists drawing 2000AD... Click on image to see it bigger.