My Imaginarium

“As a bricklayers son my natural habitat is a building site”

My creative architectural journey had its genesis with the coloured timber building blox that spilled across the floors of my childhood home forming imaginative worlds limited only by gravity. To these modest blocks I created visions of ideas and concepts through which the wings of imagination flew. 

The other formative creative thread of my childhood is accompanying my father to building sites where he crafted his bricklaying trade. Here I encountered the reality of construction – an activity which in time I contributed to by labouring at the end of shovel feeding a concrete mixer during my school holidays. The architecture of timber blox on the carpet, combined with the art and craft of bricklaying, found its expression increasingly in my art and drawing. 

The School of Architecture had no such prescriptive boundary of production drawing and my imaginarium picked up from where the coloured timber building blox of my childhood had commenced. 

“We were born like a great original and we should not live our life like a bad copy”
Jan Muhlfeit , Microsoft

Drawings now celebrate the alchemy of heart, mind, eyes and the hand . Drawings embody the thought process of architectural design and the joy, the art and craft in their creation.