Highly creative since she could pick up a pencil, Jules began her career by becoming a Graphic Designer. Learning her trade hands-on from a grass roots level she then worked freelance in and around London for many years. With an unquenchable passion for art, design and crafts, Jules also taught herself to paint glass
and in 2000 became a Member of the Guild of Essex Craftsmen.
She painted beautiful art nouveau inspired pieces which she exhibited and sold at
numerous exhibitions and fairs; a skill she still keeps up to date.
In 2003 she bought a smart car and got highly involved in the smart scene,
meeting up with fellow owner Tom at one of these national car rallies. They collaborated
on producing smart car calendars for several years, and in 2005 were approached by a
publisher to produce a book about smarts and their owners. As a writer and poet, this came easy
to Jules and this iconic, humorous and slightly tongue-in-cheek book has proved to be very popular.
Although a keen ‘snapper’ since her teens, Jules has now taken up photography on a serious basis.
With a definite eye for composition, her images err on the side of natural beauty,
with flowers, form and texture a favourite.
Born in Bideford, North Devon 1964, Tom’s professional photographic career began after an exhibition of his work at a private hospital. He was invited to become a private Medical photographer for an eminent plastic surgeon at The Cromwell Private Hospital in Kensington, London, where he stayed gainfully employed for 10 years. He freelanced around London and successfully exhibited many times before
moving to East Sussex in the late 90’s.
For a few intervening years Tom got a ‘proper job’ as a bicycle technician and Store Manager at a bike outlet.
After a chance meeting with the editor of a magazine dedicated to smart car owners in 2003, he pulled his cameras out of mothballs and began shooting images of smart cars at various events nationwide.
This rekindled his affair with photography once more and in 2007 he had his extensive collection of smart car photographs published in a book called ‘The Smart Scene’ which he helped write with Jules.
He has also had his images published in other car publications.
In 2008 he held a prestigious exhibition of his varied work in Tortona, Italy. In that year he was also made official photographer to the Royal British Legion Industries, a position he still holds.