Written by Mike Lamble

I pinch myself  to think I have you guys round me every day of the week I am probably one of the few people that loves what they do and looks forward to Mondays.
Love what you do and do what you love has been my approach to my working life since leaving college which hasn’t always been easy as I referred to in my earlier blog on starting out as an illustrator and leaving the security of working at Saatch and Saatchi behind.

 If I have any time I practice drawing more than painting between researching, writing, scanning pictures, archives and paintings for my next talk, but it isn’t always easy sometimes I feel like “bad cop” when students miss a few classes and state “they will make them up the following term” I have to say no even though the terms are on the website under Fees
then I find I am explaining the reasons to stop their irritation.

Many of my friends say I’m lucky luck has nothing to to with it, very often I have to work seven days a week running the school. When I first started the art school for over two years I slept on the floor in the room at the back sleeping on the models mattress with cockroaches for company before dashing off to work as a freelance illustrator until the art school started to support itself it was hard meeting those deadlines in the States as I started to spend more and more time here but at least I had a kitchen and bathroom(and there is another story) boy it was worth it then and worth it now, so whilst I am looking forward to driving god knows where with my sketchbook thats a hint to all of you! I will be hanging out by then to see you.