The Scrutineer of Scrutineer's: A Fine Art Graduate who morphed into a Graphic Designer and Art Director (bringing up a family/roof over heads/food on table) before sliding eagerly back into being a Fine Artist, who continues to function as a Graphic Designer as and when financially necessary...
All work and no play…
Not a good state of affairs.
After work, the Scrutineer likes to have a little sit down with a nice cup of tea… then, when rested, she perks up a bit and starts playing again!
Comb through The Scrutineer’s Archive to see how time is passed. Or just randomly click your way around – the Post headings are clickable for more info (but heck, you already know that!)
Scrutineer #1: Rachael Adams
Artist and Designer – The Scrutineer of Scrutineer’s (or sometimes, Scrutineer Publishing)
She is exceptionally qualified:
25 metre Swimming Certificate; O Level Art, Drama, English Language & English Literature; (hmmm, with that kind of State encouragement, thank goodness Art Colleges (pre-curriculum) accepted common muck on the basis of fighting spirit & an inkling of potential)… DATEC Diploma in Foundation Studies; A Level Art; A Level Etching (Improved mimicry of ‘Nicely Spoken’ down to mixing with a Buckinghamshire ‘new sort’); BA (Hons) Degree Fine Art Painting; Driving Licence; Self-Employment (with Thatcher’s Surprising Triumph, the Enterprise Allowance Scheme), Post Graduate Diploma in Narrative Illustration/Editorial Design; MA Sequential Art, Level 2 Numeracy (oh, no – you can’t teach Art without a Maths qualification), City & Guilds Teaching thingy… Woo hoo
She mostly likes:
Autodidacticism; A maudlin ballad; Johnny Cash; pegging out the washing; sunny mornings in the back yard; Party Food at parties (Twiglets & cheese & pineapple stick things); Charley Harper; Magnolia blossom on a ludicrous tree; tea not water; Chris Morris; the passion of Tears of the Black Tiger; Chris Dillow; British Transport Films; Le Samourai; red or pink lipstick (Glamour at all times); the wafting smell of a roast dinner; a 1978 Mercedes Convertible 450SL; James Mason’s voice; The Coen Brothers; typography; the angry love songs of Nick Cave; Doggy people; Neo Rauch; William Hogarth; Harry Beck’s London Underground Map, any Ordnance Survey map, and The Stanford’s shop in Long Acre; ‘Supper Time’ by Ethel Waters; Paul Auster’s New York Trilogy; The Guggenheim at Bilbao; washing-up day-dreams; My Brightest Diamond; Christian Marclay’s ‘The Clock’; The Magus; Der Lauf Der Dinge – ‘The Way Things Go’ by Fischli and Weiss; Vienna; creepers; Peter Greenaway; Stylesheets; Pantone Swatches; Seawhites; Josh T Pearson; ‘Nature Boy’; Where Eagles Dare; obvious trite in the company of self-important types…
Taught by the following peeps:
Amersham College of Art & Design 1981-1983
Cav. Romeo Di Girolamo – President of Royal Society of British Painters
Roy Laughton – highly regarded for his TV Graphics of the 60′s
Brighton Polytechnic 1983-1986
Gerard Hemsworth – Personal Tutor First Year
Jack Smith – Personal Tutor Second & Third Year
Keith Clements - Department of Art History and Complementary Studies
Stuart Morgan - Department of Art History and Complementary Studies
Mike Tucker - Department of Art History and Complementary Studies
University of Brighton 1993-1996
Professor George Hardie – Personal Tutor & designer of many legendary record covers
Professor John Vernon Lord – Highly regarded narrative illustrator
Dr Chris Mullen – Art Historian and Visual Narrative Genius
