Welcome to my website. Here you will find a variety of collections I have worked on over time. I am primarily a painter working with oils and just recently with watercolors.
My work is mainly guided by surrealist sensibilities, romantic ideas, the written word, nature, mythologies, and a wanderlust for places unknown. The use of color draws viewers from afar, inviting them to lose themselves in the intricate details of fantasy landscapes. The colors are used to determine the atmosphere of a painting. The line work is close to graphic design elements.
My earlier works seek to be contradictory: through the dress pattern figures, I explore what it is for humankind to seek meaning, and not discover it, while simultaneously finding peace through the intricate details that depict a utopia, embedded in the imagery of nature. These works confront politics, color, and desire head-on, working with oil paints, watercolors, and dress patterns to explore these themes. My newer works are confronting the past, present, and future, and are possibly biographical.
I was born in England and currently reside in the USA. Growing up, I was surrounded by books, old movies, music, nature, and the love of using the imagination as a child. These have remained the core influences in my work throughout my career. Drawing has always been there, although this wasn't realized until I took art as an exam subject at school many moons ago. I decided to attend art school as a mature student and graduated with a Fine Arts degree from the Ashford School of Art and Design, Kent, UK in 2007. I had exhibited mainly in the UK and then after I had moved to the USA in 2011 I have had a few exhibitions on the Crossroads in Kansas City.