work less.. play harder

Time to relax and enjoy more of the fun side of life…travel, explore and fish…

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Having been a very busy angling illustrator, graphic and web designer for over 20 years, working for major angling brands and angling book and magazine publishers, I have now seized the opportunity to step away and retire, and hopefully catch up with some of my favourite hobbies and past time with my family and friends.

This personal website now serves to provide a reference to some of the work I have done in those years and a place where I can share some of the artwork working up from the verybasic days of the original black and white line art that got me started on this new career. It was my escape from a long career in the fork truck industry, workin up from humble service engineer through to field service manager for Lansing Linde.

In the free time I shall be persuing a few of my passions. An angler since the age of around 6 years old, I have fished for all the coarse species we have in the UK, pursuing some in a more determined and dedicated fashion as a ‘speciment hunter’ or ‘specialist angler’…but have now taken the opportunity to get back to actually fishing for ‘fun’ as to combine it with my other real love, that of travelling around the UK, seeing the beauty and charm of our country and its many fabulous town and cities, making every effort when doing so to find and visit local fisheries and then to catch whatever species might be there to be caught.

The older periods of travel for my fishing were often in an overloaded estate car, alone or with a friend, camping, later travelling with family using a caravan and more recently a motorhome to provide the extra bit of comfort in these later years.

This new redesign of the web site provides an opportunity for me to share experiences of locating good campsites with fishing onsite. Those I visit will be posted into a directory of the ones I fish and recommend. I hope to offer some guides to fellow travellers on how to get the best from their visits, with tackle tips and detail of baits, and where to get the items to fulfill the opportunities to catch some fish.

Having digitally illustrated for top angling books and publications the past 20 years or so, my archive of top quality angling illustrations give me an opportunity to share the work you may see in my old Portfolio with like minded travelling anglers.

David

Previous Business Information

Angling Illustrator, Graphic  Designer and Web Designer and Developer based in Breckland area near to Watton in Norfolk. I offer a full range of these services, individually or as a full complimentary package together for a variety of clients locally, here in Norfolk, and wider across the UK and Europe.

NB: Please note that I no longer provide these services!

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