About Me

I am a British Artist living and working in the LA area. I grew up in the grey industrial north of England and studied painting at Cardiff college of Art in rainy South Wales. I moved to Southern California in 2000 and like many Brits before me I was immediately captivated by the light and color of my adopted home. While I will always love the dramatic, brooding Yorkshire skies of my youth, the light and color of LA was a revelation to me and became thematically more important to my work as the years progressed. 

In 2007 I decided to abandon my figurative artwork, (Yes, I am a recovering figurative artist!) so I could focus purely on exploring the energy of color. I have never looked back and today my work is a celebration of color as a medium of joy and transformation.

I am fascinated by the power of color. How it can reach deep into the unconscious to affect emotions, transport us to another time or place, disrupt perceptions and change minds. My work is intended as a portal, a way to tap into the trans formative power of art through color.

As well as my art practice I have enjoyed, (and still enjoy) a varied career as a creative designer in the film and entertainment industries. For a number of years I was a Disney Imagineer, which was pretty cool. I live in Glendale California with my wife, two awesome daughters and two Jack Russel terriers, Jasper and Octavia. 

working digitally

I learned the importance of drawing and painting in art school, long before computers were considered a tool for visual artists, but I have always been interested in the potential of digital art. As a kid, instead of playing Asteroids, I experimented with writing code in Basic to generate random sequences of color and sound on my Atari 800. I couldn't have told you why, it just fascinated me. 

I have always maintained an open mind towards digital media. Perhaps because of my continuing work as a designer in entertainment, where Computer Aided Design has been adopted wholesale. I believe that digital art mediums are just as valid as the traditional ones and are undervalued in the art world as a whole.

I love to draw and paint digitally using any tools that I can get my hands on. I also still experiment with making art via coding and continue to get excited by the possibilities inherent in random events and numbers creating the “happy accidents” in my artwork.  

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