Art and being creative has always been a hobby of mine, as a young boy I would spend hours and hours drawing cartoon characters and colouring them in, once finished I would put them in my ring bind folders. I completed hundreds of characters, I set up a little business as a young boy called Crazy Cartoons, which I offered to do wall murals on bedroom walls for children. My favourite piece I completed was of the Teenage Mutant Hero Turtles, all the characters drawn by hand and painted, the characters were 6ft tall. I carried on drawing and being creative, then school ended and it was time to find a job which would certainly earn me a living throughout my life. So I completed a 4 year plastering apprenticeship, which to me was also being very creative, anyway skip forward to the present day and I have enjoyed my plastering career which took me all over Europe and setting up my own plastering business, whilst always being creative with my art and design. I worked in and around Europe for 7 years, plastering in Holland, Belgium, France and Germany. On my return to the UK I decided to continue my creative side and enrolled on a Be-Tec foundation course in art and design, upon completion I went onto university in Cambridge and completed a 3 year graphic design and photography course and graduated with a 2:2 in July 2000. Sometimes life gets in the way of the things you really want to do and of course you need to earn a living, so I continued plastering and designing and also learnt how to cast statues and make the latex and resin master moulds. Sometimes something happens in life which really gives you a wake up call, a life long friend of mine, a very established and well known artist died quite young in 2020 suddenly. It really gave me the kick start I needed to use all my creative ideas, so from that moment on in my spare time I started drawing and being creative again. So here we are today, I have spent the last year full time in my studio being creative and designing, every piece you see on this site has been designed, by myself.

Boyski

“Bringing imagination into reality”

Steve Cook BA ( Hons)