New Series 2012
Reflecting on past times - My latest work has been driven by the peoples stories of times gone by. Nostalgic images bring back a time people valued. My aim was to provoke such thoughts and yet to reproduce an honesty of the British culture as well.
Derek gained his B.A. honours’ degree at Farnham Art College in 1993. He quickly began a diverse career in animated film making where he won an international prize. After illustrating and animating in London he moved into computer game design. Success was to follow him at Codemasters Ltd with a number one hit game and other AAA publications for the Sony Play Station. He then travelled extensively around the world for a number of years. Derek wanted to always be free to work on a broad variety of projects and found painting to be a favourite medium. He has been established now for over seven years as a painter with exhibitions locally and in Brecon, where his paintings have covered a number of subjects from Jazz to Park Life. His latest achievement was setting up several art classes and organizing demonstrations and exhibitions within the Rhondda Valleys.“We own three of Derek's paintings now and love the interest they always get from guests" Mr and Mrs Wheeler, Brecon
"I've bought lots of paintings for the house but its Derek’s painting everyone comments on. I'd never part with it for all the others" Mrs B. Muir, Brecon
"Derek was a pleasure to deal with and produced a high quality painting for us at the price we asked. What more could we ask for?" Mrs J Jones, Rhondda
NEW ART CLASSES STARTED in Treorchy and WATER COLOUR CLASSES in Ferndale