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Welsh born, London sown, California grown...

Sitting down on a warm grassy slope one long-ago summer's day, I made this pen and ink drawing of Caerphilly Castle. On that hill in the background is a narrow street of stone cottages called Bryn Gwyn, and it was, in number 15, I was born. My bedroom window faced out across the verdant Rhymney Valley to this ancient Norman fortress. On then, up and over the last mountain in south Wales to the capital city Cardiff, where boats sailed out into the world taking my childhood dreams of travel and adventure with them. Then came the day, amser i mynd ~ time to go, from this cosy Welsh cradle called Cymru.

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Starting off first with Bristol, England, for college and love, then adventure further afield in Venice Beach, California, for post-college fun, and rock climbing sans rain. Eventually back to UK (go big or go home) London, for the thrill of top-flight design agency work, more family weekends back in Wales, homey mates and brilliant pubs on the River Thames. Four years later, first child in tow, ventured back across the pond to Cap City, Sacramento, to start and build an award-winning, community-supporting, client-growing, brand identity design team of cherry-picked talent, type of agency.

 

All the while, sketching, shooting, directing, painting, and pride of all, raising three spectacular children. Those chapters written, the road or some such fancy called once more, "it's been a while, time to explore ~ step away, paint me, bring your camera, follow and trust winds and whim, and listen to the fairy whispers" (that was what my mother would have said). So I weighed anchor and set out, again. Oh my!

 

From the barefoot sandy shores of the California Pacific Coast, to Sierra Nevada lakes and Mojave Dessert sunsets, from tropical beaches in the Caribbean, to monuments in Navajo Nations and castles in Wales, the "art movement of one man and his dog" is seeing, feeling, thinking, finding, doing...​

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Thanks for visiting! What's YOUR story? Please send me a note, it will make my day to meet you,

 

James

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