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VI SIS MIS • CARPE DIEM • OPERA AMAT

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    • Objective Marketing
    • Marketing Consultancy
    • Web sites for Artists
  • Art Studio
    • Commission a Portrait
    • Exhibitions
    • Portrait Gallery
    • Landscape Gallery
    • Life Gallery
    • Sculpture Gallery
    • Still Life Gallery
    • Conceptual Art
    • Photography
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    • Art Tickles Blog
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  • About
    • Eric Barfield
    • Ericaceous
    • Influences
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About Eric Barfield

​The week I was born The Hollies were at #1 with "I'm alive". What does it mean to be alive? For me it's all about consciousness of breath and the awareness that life is short. So what do we do with this precious gift of life?
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My mother always said, "Do the best you can". When I saw a little pilgrims badge at the Tomb of the Unknown Craftsman Grayson Perry exhibition in 2012 it reminded me of this advice. The badge is inscribed with the latin phrase "Vi Sis Mis" which literally translated means "Be the most".
But the badge has another meaning: "I have the mouse". This idea is shown figuratively with the cat holding a mouse in its mouth. The cat is comfortable with its nature, it knows what it must do. This surely is our greatest quest, to discover who we are, our true nature, beyond what society or our parenting my have ascribed to us.

​I have spent a large part of my career working in IT and marketing. I've had a number of "good jobs" and built a successful small business. In 2011 I experienced what I can only describe as a "calling" and in 2012 I responded. Since childhood I had enjoyed drawing and now it is my life's work and passion. I "have the mouse". Through teaching I help others discover their "artistic voice" and as a portrait artist I explore my own.

Summary

  • Hampshire born (1965), educated in UK and USA.
  • 1987 BSc (Hons) Degree in Computing Science, Imperial College, London.
  • Employee at Logica and Phillips Consumer Electronics.
  • Co-formed SilverDisc Limited 1993.
  • SilverDisc delivered marketing, education and training solutions on CDROM/CDi platforms.
  • Created first web site in 1994, and first eCommerce site in 1996.
  • Extensive client portfolio from major banks to small car dealers.
  • 100s of web sites built, delivered and marketed.
  • Expertise in search engine marketing, in particular Google Adwords and Search Engine Optimisation of web sites.
  • Project management, creative direction, sales, business development and partnership experience.
  • 2012 Left SilverDisc to set up Ericaceous Limited.
  • Following my passions as artist and web marketing expert.

Background

About the age of 10 I was inspired by my first mentor and teacher Mr Smith. Mr Smith taught maths and art at Mayfield Middle School, Isle of Wight  in the 1970s.  "Natural" instinct might suggest a paradox in the idea that someone good at maths could also be good at art, after all students are often asked to make a decision at some point in their lives; to be an artist OR a scientist. Mr Smith was great at both.

In 1979, I moved to the USA with my family. (Thank you IBM, and thank you Dad for taking a risk, and escaping the power cuts.) In America I was given confidence, my first camera (a Pentax K1000 SLR), and a wide and varied education which included programming, architecture, archery, fishing, metalwork, touch typing. I completed computer based Q&A career advice which suggested I should be an architect.

Returning to the UK in the early 1981, with a growing curiosity about personal computers (BBC Micro) and their ability to paint light onto CRTs, I chose to be a scientist. Architecture was an option, but at the time the 7 year degree seem like a long time to be in education to me! The lure of solid job prospects in IT and nudges from 6th form college teachers sent me off to Imperial College to study Computing Science. 
I left Imperial with degree in hand, and joined Logica, mainly because Philips Hughes, the director of Logica at the time, was also a well known artist.

I was based in Hampstead Road, Camden, and just around the corner at the Camden Institute I started a life drawing class.

I was captivated by drawing the human form from the first experience. Doing a charcoal drawing of a statuesque Rastafarian man. (See right.)
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In 1990 I left Logica as writing embedded software that had no visual manifestation ultimately lost my interest.  I joined Philips Interactive Media Systems, attracted by a new "multimedia home entertainment system" called "CDi" (Compact Disc Interactive). After 3 years playing with light, I joined up with a couple of colleagues and formed Silverdisc.

​Shortly after that the internet was born and everything changed, every few years! After almost 19 years co-building SilverDisc into an online marketing agency of good ethical pedigree, in 2012 I made the decision to leave SilverDisc, set up Ericaceous and travel down the rabbit hole!
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  • Art Studio
    • Commission a Portrait
    • Exhibitions
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    • Life Gallery
    • Sculpture Gallery
    • Still Life Gallery
    • Conceptual Art
    • Photography
    • Portmanteau
  • Art Talk
    • Art Tickles Blog
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    • Art Shops
    • Art Galleries
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    • Community Hub in Pippbrook House
  • About
    • Eric Barfield
    • Ericaceous
    • Influences
  • Contact
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