You will (hopefully) have seen some examples of my paintings and drawings on Starts At 60, but I haven’t finished with you yet. The art I have already shown is the stuff I have done for the pleasure of doing it, but there is another side to me. You see, I have been a professional artist/illustrator/photographer since about 1952 and until I retired in 1996, very little of my work was just for pleasure. I had to make my living at it. I’m here to show you just a few of the many pieces of illustration work I did during that time.
I hope I haven’t bored you with this little exhibition of my commercial work. Many people don’t realise the amount of artistic work that has to go into virtually everything that gets printed. Even the simple invoice you receive from your newsagent or electricity company has first to be drawn up by someone like me, and then photographed so that it can be transferred onto printing plates attached to a large machine. And every page in a glossy magazine is done in exactly the same way, there are no short cuts, except that most stuff has now gone electronic, but the result is unchanging.