Eric Snell, Director of IAIRP

On leaving Hornsey College of Art, in 1976, Eric Snell over the last 30 years has worked continuously in the visuals arts, primarily developing his own work as an artist, but with a long and sustained commitment to education teaching at many of the London art schools in the late 70s and early 80s before moving, with his wife Joanna Littlejohns, to Berlin in 1985 when he was awarded a DAAD Fellowship.

As quoted in a recent interviews Snell poignantly states:- 'Hornsey College of Art, in the early 70s with it's radical new approach to art education, together with the DAAD Artist in Residence Programme, which in the mid 80s was running a truly international and culturally diverse programme in what was then effectively an island as Berlin was very much so a walled city at that time, had a profound effect on me, and I believe, whether it was conscious or not, exposure to these two influential organisations unpinned my thinking in relation to the setting of both Grange House and the International Artist Residence Programme'.

Committed to raising the understanding of the visual arts sit in the island, while simultaneously keen to raise the profile of Guernsey, Eric Snell continues to exhibiting internationally, working out of Guernsey where he lives with Joanna and their 16 year old daughter Ella.