come and
meet the team
Brian Homer
Originally qualifying as an electrical engineer, Brian’s work in the electricity industry included work study and manning-level reviews. His career in graphic communications started in 1971 when he co-founded Grapevine, a Birmingham-based alternative 'what's on' magazine. In 1981, using his editorial and photographic experience, he went solo as Brian Homer Design at a time when there were very few agencies in the West Midlands offering communications services to the public sector. He is a member of the National Union of Journalists.
Homer Creative has grown from there and became a limited company in 2003. In the nineties Brian was one of four associates based in Birmingham offering specifically tailored marketing services to schools – again well ahead of what most agencies were doing. These associates are still part of the wider Homer family.
Valerie Jenner
Valerie is a trained actor, director and teacher, with experience in FE and HE including as a tutor in Voice, Speech and Text at the Central School of Speech and Drama. Prior to this she worked for many years in Theatre in Education visiting schools in Coventry, Nottingham and the East Midlands and London and the South. She joined Homer Creative in 1999 bringing experience in presentation skills training in local government and all forms of live and spoken as well as written communication. She is a member of the voice care network.
Sue Race, Matt Sadler and Louise Gates
Sue, Matt and Louise are responsible for running our busy studio, scheduling work, liaising with clients, managing the workflow and dealing with printers. As well as being our senior designer, Sue is an accomplished artist and illustrator. Matt has excellent skills in print and web design. He also has sound technical knowledge and often advises and trains clients in various software packages. Louise our administrator is also responsible for operating our health & safety and environmental procedures.
Graham Darbyshire
Graham is a member of the Chartered Institute for Personnel Development and has worked for over 20 years with Unilever, Phillips, GKN and HSBC, covering the full range of HR activities at senior management level. He is a regular conference speaker who now works as a consultant focussing on training and development, especially team building and leadership, HR strategy and policy development, as well as employee attitude surveys linked to organisations who wish to become ‘employers of choice’. Graham contributes to Homer Education’s consultancy, facilitation and attitude survey work.
Roy Peters
Roy is a documentary and creative photographer with over thirty years of experience working for schools, universities, trade unions, and other public sector organisations. He has pioneered and developed action photography notably in the sporting and dance theatre fields as well as in work place portraiture. Roy, who is also a trained marketer, contributes photography to a wide range of our work, particularly in education where his ability to work with young people in uninhibited settings, without “posing” them, is one of the strengths of Homer Education’s school publicity. Roy is also a specialist in extremely large display photography.
Timm Sonnenschein
Timm is a documentary photographer and designer, even prepared to be thrown overboard into the Baltic Sea to capture images of a working lifeboat and its crew! He brings a European perspective to his work with us, where he has contributed to our schools photography and to Homer Creative’s Self-Portrait Project.
Chris Stagg
Chris is an award winning creative consultant using theatre, narrative and visual thinking processes to develop teams, products & services, brands and leadership in business organisations. He has designed and delivered creative learning & development programmes for a wide range of commercial organisations. He has FE and HE teaching experience and is also a Visiting Fellow at CENTRIM, Brighton University’s centre for innovation in business and management. He contributes to our consultancy and facilitation work.
