I am an amateur artist who passes the time at home dabbling mainly in oil paints. My style of painting leans heavily towards realism, but not to the point of trying to become a photocopier. There's always room for some artistic license or photo manipulation / re-composition.
I've set this website up mainly as a way of showcasing the art I create but then I thought maybe I should include some info about what I do for the other 200 days of the year when I can't be in front of my easel.
My 'day job' is working at sea as a cable engineer, or more fully... a subsea fibre optic cable engineer.
I normally spend about half of the year onboard a cable repair / installation vessel, currently stationed out in the Far East where our job is to maintain the subsea cables along which 99% of the world's internet traffic flows. In fact, as you read this, there's a very good chance that the data is coming to you via a cable that I or some of my colleagues have laid over the last 20 years or so.
I'll see if I can get some more details and some photos included in the website at some point.