{"id":62,"date":"2013-02-02T16:43:02","date_gmt":"2013-02-02T16:43:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mikeeason.co.uk\/?page_id=62"},"modified":"2025-08-31T16:35:16","modified_gmt":"2025-08-31T15:35:16","slug":"mike-eason","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.mikeeason.co.uk\/","title":{"rendered":"About Me"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome to my website, hastily thrown together until I have time in my busy schedule to design it properly &#8211; well, at least you know I&#8217;m honest!<\/p>\n<p>I have spent over 40 years in the POS design industry, winning several <strong>POPAI awards<\/strong> for my innovative designs. About 10 years ago, I then ran my own <strong>photography studio<\/strong>, also winning awards for some of my creative images &#8211; but recently, I decided to pursue an <strong>alternate path<\/strong>, utilising the natural <strong>artistic skills<\/strong> I neglected in all of that time.<\/p>\n<p>From creating designs and animations in <strong>Cinema4D<\/strong>, shooting portraits, fashion and commercial images in my photography studio, I am now rekindling my traditional drawing and painting skills, offering <strong>commissioned\u00a0 portraits<\/strong>.\u00a0 Apologies to those who were expecting to see my design work on this updated change-of-use website!<\/p>\n<p>I work in pastels, pencil or oils, producing commission based detailed portraits. However, I also paint landscapes and multiple themes\/subjects in a number of styles.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"913\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mikeeason.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/ARTIST-2-1024x913.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-538\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mikeeason.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/ARTIST-2-1024x913.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.mikeeason.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/ARTIST-2-785x700.jpg 785w, https:\/\/www.mikeeason.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/ARTIST-2-768x685.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.mikeeason.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/ARTIST-2-1536x1370.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.mikeeason.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/ARTIST-2.jpg 1809w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome to my website, hastily thrown together until I have time in my busy schedule to design it properly &#8211; well, at least you know I&#8217;m honest! I have spent over 40 years in the POS design industry, winning several POPAI awards for my innovative &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mikeeason.co.uk\/\" class=\"more-link\"><span>Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">About Me<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":527,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-62","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mikeeason.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/62","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mikeeason.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mikeeason.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mikeeason.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mikeeason.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=62"}],"version-history":[{"count":62,"href":"https:\/\/www.mikeeason.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/62\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":563,"href":"https:\/\/www.mikeeason.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/62\/revisions\/563"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mikeeason.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/527"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mikeeason.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=62"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}