Ian Naylor

Today Ian Naylor is based in the town where he grew up, but his early career in technical illustration took him to London ... and the arcane delights of Soho's Dean Street. He’s an artist with a passion for detail, mechanics and structure, creating functional and informative works of art as well as more figurative pieces for the advertising world. He's fascinated by lighthouses, ships and the sea, a perfect escape is to the Crinnan Canal on the Scottish West Coast, it’s a magical place ... then way out west and the outer isles, like approaching the rim of the World ! He also enjoys working with his hands and in a world before illustration, trained briefly as a cabinetmaker. He still makes furniture when time permits, taking an experimental approach to design, structure and materials. Also a keen model maker and in his well equipped workshop, constructs static wooden ships for display and has even been known to indulge in ceramics, making lighthouses, strangely enough !