Derrick Fielding
Derrick Fielding - Born in Liverpool in 1965, Derrick remembers spending much of his childhood with his head buried in a comic, usually The Beano or Whizzer and Chips. He would relish being sent to bed early as a punishment for some misdemeanour, so that he could read the latest escapade of The Bash Street Kids or Dennis the Menace.
From an early age he loved to draw and as he grew older, began to use this passion to unleash an elaborate imagination that created various board games for his neighbourhood friends. Fortunately, his father was a painter and decorator so his earliest ‘canvases’ were the backs of rolls of wallpaper, of which there was always a steady supply of. He later served an apprenticeship as a sign writer, painting the enormous advertising hoardings at sports venues up and down the country and this experience would influence his style as an artist in years to come.
