This Page started as a home for me to share / explore my Design Aesthetic

Lighting is a joy obsession and job so I am a little biased. Light is important to how we interpret the world around us and I delight in being a provider and manipulator of it. My style has been described as colourful and bold which I am happy to repeat. Click here to view an essay on my personal aesthetic submitted as part of my Masters program. One of my students at Chico asked me as I left what advice I had for him, I repeat here some of what I said and what I believe are my little reminders about how to light a production well.I am often asked about doing a Masters in Lighting in the US, here is an article I sent to the Association of Lighting Designers for their focus magazine.

As an employee of The University of Leeds which is a "research led" university I have had to develop my interests, obsessions, curiousity and art into Research.

Interests include:

1. Relighting: processes and technology which improve the process. I have had interest from Focal press for a book which is a couple of years off (minimum).
2. Lighting design process in the UK and USA and transferring productions between the two. I particularly have an interest in colour (color!), and aim to publish an article with TD&T by Christmas 2005.
3. Media servers and projection technology. I will be submitting an article on how the media server and cheap video projectors are bringing the lighting designer and set designer together as a scenogrpaher, September 2005.
4. Safety in the design and build of theatres. Paper to be given at the Palatine conference "The Inspector Calls" Winchester Autumn 2005.
5. Communication between lighting designers and choreographers.

May 2005 saw me give two papers at conferences, One on Media servers / projection at the FIRT/IFTR Scenography conference in Amsterdam, the second on at Showlight in Munich entitled "Lighting designs: how they change from venue to venue, the extent of the change, and why they change after the production period.".

There is a page of lighting resources which have inspired me or are useful here.