About

James Lord

I was born on the Isle of Wight and spent an idylic childhood in Yarmouth sculling around the harbour, sailing Scows on the River Yar 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. After college I lived and worked in London as a graphic designer for over 10 years before heading back to the Islande of Wight to work as a freelance graphic designer.

My art includes illustrative prints and abstracted country and coastal original pictures using palette knives, masking tape, layers of acrylic, adding plaster / varnish.

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.

Love of the water runs deep and I get much of my inspiration swimming, paddling out to catch a few waves a my home break at Compton, sailing on my XOD 111 Annabel, walking the beaches and along the coastal path.

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