THIS IS THE FIRST BLOG THAT I HAVE EVER PUBLISHED and the feature on the left more or less tells you about me.
Apart from Art my other principal interest is Linguistics and I speak several languages including Mandarin, which I started to study in the year 2000. I wanted a hobby and a challenge which would keep my mind busy for the rest of my life. I think it was a good choice because I will never speak it perfectly, let alone read and write it, and it has a very strong artistic element to it, which appeals to me.

I am married to Anne, and we spent some years in the Canary Islands where I studied painting, and together we ran a business when we returned to London, selling coins, stamps,costume jewellery and my paintings too. It was fun while it lasted, but, like all good things it came to an end when the 9/11 atrocity put a stop to the American tourist trade in London.
The editor of a German art magazine called Lesart, saw my work in London while he was on holiday in the UK, and he engaged me as frontpage artist for four years...however, he discovered computerised artwork one day, and that was the end of my arrangement with him.
Nowadays, I sell on www.galleries-online.co.uk/ fredsegal If you want to see my latest work please visit that website. I can be contacted from there too.

THIS PICTURE is of an introductory item for the readers of Lesart and was good publicity for my work in Germany. The magazine had 40,00 readers and was distributed all over the country. In those pre-computerised days I had to prepare loads of samples and post them to Germany for approval. Such is the nature of publishing that the editors were very fickle at times, and this was reflected when they changed their minds about the subject matter and I had to reject a lot of work I had prepared as it was no longer relevant.
The article dealt with how I came to be working for them, which readers found curious as I am from England, and it gave examples of how I interpreted their ideas about the subject matter for the front page for the particular edition in hand.