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 Full name: Alan Higgs

Birth sign: Capricorn, 3 daughters and 6 grandchildren, locally born.

Alan refers to himself as a mature student/part time worker. He is educated in art up to 'A' Level. (2002- HND Fine Art)

He is not sure what his specialised study will be as he would like to do them all.

Hobbies: Music.....Jazz/blues (drummer and harmonica player). Breeding, showing and judging Bantam Chickens. Tennis and Aerobics. Computers and computer art.

After this course he hopes to paint and possibly sell art.

Ambitions: To win the National Chicken Show. To get a painting hung at the RA Summer Exhibition.

He thinks the facilities at Barnfield are magic.

 

 

 
    
 

The first term was doing life drawing, all sorts, with pastels, charcoals, conte crayon or paint if desired
  
 

Coincidently we were making boxes after the style of Joseph Cornell. This one on the left represents my hobby in a box. Lots of carboard bantams stuck on with prints of my previous art work. The box is made from old oak.

The right one is painted with Protein Dye.
  

 

 
Printmaking based on chicken box. A silk screen print suprimposed by Vicosity printing.

This is my first attempt at a FLASH movie. As usual I try to run before I can walk. But it was all drawn within FLASH, not a bad little drawing programme. I've got loads wrong but its just an experiment to see how it works on the web in this instance. Watch this space for further developments !!!! Of course its meant to be an animated flock of my chickens, lol.