Artist Bio

‘As an artist I make paintings, wood carvings and prints, exploring ideas of modern day life, including social, political and nature-based themes through acrobatic compositions. Experiences are a key factor, going out, seeing and being interactive with the mechanics of life ensure subject-rich and poetic reflections of the world being created in imaginative compositions.

Having always loved printmaking and great Japanese print artists, such as Utagawa Kuniyoshi, I began making some of my own prints. I found a love for the print block as an artwork itself. So I started carving painted wood panels allowing the bare wood to become the outlines and textures of an image.  This then progressed with the use of spraying car paints and lacquers onto the carvings giving metallic glossy effects.

I began my career as an oil painter having been trained at The University of Gloucestershire, graduating in 2008. Since then, I have worked in the fine art industry assisting in the fabrication of other artists’ work. I have also worked in engineering as a paint sprayer and most recently as a gardener. All of these experiences and skills have, and continue to, inform my fine art practice.

Work by artists such as The German Expressionists and Scottish figurative artists of the 1980s have impacted the stylistic elements of the work. Exhibiting alongside Peter Howson, Steven Campbell and John Bellany in Scotland was a highlight of my career.’