New person in our midsts!
A little blog post this morning to introduce another member of Team Painter; our senior designer, James Shead. James’ job is to take the giant pile of text documents and images I present him with every month and turn them into the gorgeous glossy magazine that drops through your door a few weeks later. Having been lured onto the website by a trail of biscuits, he’s now able to approve images, meaning that this will be a speedier process even when I’m out of the office! So please give him a very warm welcome to the website (He’s JamesPainter) but remember that he can’t answer editorial or tech support enquiries as he’s very artistic 
June 11th, 2009 at 7:34 pm
“…but remember that he can’t answer editorial or tech support enquiries as he’s very artistic ;)…”
Oh, April! Not a fair assertion, even in jest. There are scores of artistic people who function very highly in the left hemisphere, brilliant people.
Welcome James.
Cheryl
June 12th, 2009 at 12:05 pm
Funnily enough Cheryl I had a conversation very much like that with my daughter yesterday! I was explaining how I get terribly impatient with people who describe themselves as ‘left brain’ and ‘right brain’ because of the amount of science and logic you need to apply to art in order to create what we consider a masterpiece - think of George Stubbs meticulously dissecting and drawing a horse. He made a really valuable contribution to science there too because it was one of the first instances of creating an anatomical method, and the way he went through the process was picked up in the sciences and medicine. We wouldn’t have the medical science we have today without Stubbs’ contribution - which he did in order to understand how to accurately paint the subject he got the most patronage from! Then of course there’s knowing how to make paint, restore it and clean it (chemistry) and how to scan and assess the condition of museum artwork - you need to know how x-rays and ultrasound work to do that!
The point of the previous not-so-throwaway comment is, however, that it’s not my colleague James’ role to understand or resolve editorial or tech support issues; his job is design. So I think you’re misinterpreting the intent and flippancy of the comment there.