Julian has been fiddling about with the visual image since he was a child.

Always gravitating towards the picture elements in books and magazines, he would spend hours happily making collages out of cut-up imagery.

His favourite was making fancy calendars to present to bemused relatives.

His first camera was a Box Brownie which was boxy and, er, brown. It also had the the weirdest viewfinder of any camera ever made.

After finishing school, he drifted into engineering, ending up as a design draughtsman (because he could draw, and make sense of perspective).

It was in his early twenties that he found his true focus – joining his first advertising agency, and discovering the infectious magic of ideas.

Advertising took him inevitably to London, where he learned a lot, and enjoyed an exhilarating and awarded career as an Art Director.

He was then recruited by Specsavers Group as their Creative Director.

Thus he spent a fruitful six years building their brand, including everything from designing the famous green double ellipse logo to writing and directing their national TV commercials.

He left to pursue a commercials career in the UK, and moved into the ‘big country house’ scenario.

Whilst sporadically making TV ads in a declining market, he got increasingly involved with various entrepreneurial pursuits.

And forgot his real purpose for a long while.

Just a few short years ago, he woke up one sunny morning and realised that he was missing the very passion that had brought him so much pleasure and satisfaction in the early part of his creative career.

So he moved back to London, picked up a camera, got his mind back in the zone, and became a creative photographer.

Which is why you are reading this page now.

He shoots exclusively people and ideas - more often than not, combined.