/ Extract taken from Carpul Tunnel Magazine 03/06
Ambitiously creative from a young age, Tez Humphreys was born in a small coastal town in North Wales. Drawing mainly faces, Tez had a sketchbook basically strapped to his left ankle, which has always been a daily vital importance to him.
“But as I grew older the image of a 19 year old sporting what looks like a pile of doctors notes bound together with 'amazing' drawings of faces and eyes just wasn’t excepted by
a town fueled by chavs with baseball bats. Later years I developed these ideas into illustrations that made scenes...why has everything got to have a meaning in university! But this scope made me think… what I’m actually about, and where do I stand?”
Later on while attending the University at Leeds Metropolitan, Tez attended the Ba Hons Graphic Arts and Design course, which really brought out the best in him. Here he found his strengths in composition, collage, and mixing with paint.
He has a studio displaying found “kitsch objects”, and textured surfaces which he collects and believes that they “are all part of a subconscious cycle of events that one day everything will be used in a piece of work.”
Tez is inspired by James Jean, and many masters dating back to the Pre-Raphaelites, traveling, and seeing everything as an inspiration.
Always experimenting with different processes such as screen-printing, cut and past collage, photocopying, Photoshop, but mainly staying organic and textured, loving and letting accidents happen.
Stating that this is only the first chapter to his career, Tez works tirelessly at creating images that he finds only get stronger; he also enjoys “beating my dad in arm wrestling, while holidaying in Spain!”
Tez hopes to be globally recognized as an illustrator/designer, and would like to be a part of a multi-disciplinary studio, getting involved, and starting a collective.
