James Cianciaruso
Spontaneous, creative, enthusiastic and friendly, a compulsive designer, photographer and artist. His interests range from photography and graphic design through to fine art and illustration. He finds inspiration for his design and art work from politics to ancient history, other cultures and the natural world, and from around the North East where he lives. Trained as a fine artist and Graphic designer Cleveland College of Art & Design and at the University of Teesside where he gained his Graphic design (BA Hons) .
He has worked in the arts for over 20 yrs, and has spent time in the studios of established design agencies and also ran his own successful studio in the North East of England. It was in 1999 he first began exploring digital manipulation to create images that are a synthesis of photography, graphic design, painting and illustration. He believes that digital art and photography can be fun as well as commercial, He currently works as a graphic designer, photographer and digital artist in the North East of England, where he is wanting to build a reputation for his creative digital art work and photography.