I have always enjoyed image making, whether the process is drawing, painting, or photography. My first photographs date back to when I was nine years old, and was the proud owner of Kodak 127 roll film instamatic. Shooting mostly holiday scenics and friends, I then began to experiment painting lanscapes in oil when I was twelve. After completing art studies at school, I started work as a trainee artist for a busy London advertising studio. This provided practical experience in the technical skills of image making and design.
In 1994 I graduated from Anglia Ruskin University in Cambridge, England, with a first class honours degree in Studio Art. My postgraduate study includes ‘Enterprise, Entrepreneurship and Innovation’ (2008), ‘Project Management’ (2009), and ‘Event Design’ (2010) at the University Centre Folkestone, England.
Following unviversity life, I have been busy working on mixed-media and printmaking projects and commissions from my studio at St.Barnabas Press in Cambridge until 2005, when a move to the beautiful south coast of England, enabled me to work from my home studio ‘L’Atelier Blanc’, and at my Creative Foundation studio in the heart of Folkestone’s Creative Quarter.
My work creates a juxtaposition of dreams, realities and sensations, fleeting moments from life inspired by my own experiences. I explore a sense of empathy for existing across different places and times, examining personal sensations of deja-vu, while moving through times, locations, and states of being, without a fixed linear chronology.
Images often develop out of quick sketches, inspired by many things such as a dream, a feeling, something suddenly remembered, a song, or a particular experience. I work with a diverse range of materials, enjoying experimenting with different art media (collage, drawing, painting and printmaking). Sometimes great surprises and discoveries come from working in an alternative medium.
My photography explores past events, experiences the present, and contemplates the future. The camera records, as a sketchbook, the essence of ideas, and the nuances of existence. Pathways are revealed in landscapes and faces that lead the explorer towards discoveries.I am fascinated by the area of shared experience and empathy between the photographer and his model. The creation of the image is a collaborative event, which extends beyond the moment to include the viewer within this collective process.
My artwork has been commissioned and represented in various publications, with solo and group exhibitions showing in the UK, France, Holland, Spain, Germany, Italy and the USA. I have also taught adult classes and workshops in drawing, printmaking and painting.
High quality archival prints of my artwork are available from Imagekind. Prints can be produced on a range of super paper types and canvas. Alternatively you can also choose the type of mount and frame you would like the image to be displayed in. Please click here to browse the full range of images available as prints from Imagekind.