About

James Lord

I was born in 1970 on the Isle of Wight and spent an idylic childhood in Yarmouth sculling around the harbour, sailing Scows on the estuary and spending long hot summer days on Compton Beach playing in the surf. I studied Graphic Design at Bournemouth college of Art and then London College of Printing where I graduated with a BA Hons degree in Graphic Communication. For 10 years I lived and worked in London as a graphic designer before heading back to the Isle of Wight to set-up a small design company. From September I'm going back to university to study for an MA in Fine Art at Farnham.

My art includes illustrative prints and abstracted country and coastal original pictures using palette knives, masking tape, layers of acrylic, adding plaster / varnish. I also produce ceramics at my friend Juliet's studio in Freshwater.

I try to be a sustainable as possible painting on reclaimed OSB, plywood, MDF, particle board, driftwood washed up along the Island coastline, skip finds, offcuts, old furniture. My friend Pete at Superior Bespoke carpentry has been very kind in donating all their offcuts giving a range of new surfaces to paint on.

Love of the water runs deep and I get much of my inspiration swimming, paddling out to catch a few winter waves at Compton or Freshwater Bay, racing my classic XOD yacht Annabel, walking along beaches, the coastal path and across the downs.

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