About

A fine arts degree is years of being handed nothing and asked to finish something anyway. You choose the idea, you find the method, you make it, and then you stand next to it while people say what they think. That is also what a one-person studio is, which is why the training has been more useful than it sounds.

Two daughters, so the working day has firm edges and I have got much better at finishing things. I play chess, which is where Bito chess came from. I teach kroki, which keeps my hand honest. I draw, I cook properly, and I take photographs that are not for anybody. None of it goes on an invoice, but it is where the eye comes from, and the eye is what you are actually hiring.

I am a designer who writes code rather than the other way round, but the work has stopped being brochures. Recent projects include a members area with subscriptions and room booking, a referral system for a dental clinic that had to hold patient data properly, trilingual sites, and a chess trainer of my own that runs on the phone.

I would rather have a few clients for a long time than many for a week. Several of the sites in the portfolio are ones I still look after, and where I can I teach the client to run their own site, because paying a designer to change an opening time is a bad arrangement for everyone.