pyramid (2004) Drawing by Cris Mitchel

Art...can that word really say enough about the out-pouring of emotions,thoughts and even beliefs that we have come to know as ART.I have no formal art training just a love of drawing every thing I have thought of or even trying to see where a thought,idea or emotion may lead me.My teachers at school may have had something else to say about it,every margin,every cover,every empty space had to be adorned,and so my art was born in doodles.
Like so many others I have worked in many different jobs but my one escape was drawing and thinking about the drawing,all the nights I spent working machines,when tiredness was crushing my very existance there was always an idea for another picture.
I have sold original pictures,sold t-shirts with my designs from market stalls,I've created murals on walls(inside and out),designed tattoo's and cards and still the hammer of life beats upon my soul and I end up thinking of paying the bills instead of creation.As so many have said before pain is a major player in creation,so here I stand,a working man with a thousand images and stories,will I ever have the time to relate them all,only the universe knows.

• Nationality: UNITED KINGDOM
• Date of birth : 1968
• Artistic domains:
• Groups: Contemporary British Artists