About

I am an interdisciplinary drawing artist. Most recently I have tended to work with printmaking and writing as mediums alongside hand drawing, with storytelling at the heart of it all. I was lucky enough to study a few technical creative subjects over the years and these have always kept me entertained and in jobs that have stretched from film to illustration and print studios.

I studied for my masters in drawing at Wimbledon School of Art and am currently BA Illustration Online course lead at Falmouth University. I set up my publishing company Unpopular Fiction over 10 years ago and currently split my time between this, education and my own material practice and research.

My research has been steeped in drawing being a relational activity and a product of the body and I always draw lots of plants. I have also been investigating devotional approaches to this.

But maybe because of my technical training you will often find me fiddling around with tiny experimental research objects.

Original research practice statement from 2015 that hasn't really changed much over the years:

Drawing and writing are the same. A line leaks out of the body. Something escapes human containment. It is not abject though. It might be like faecal matter but for me all that makes me human is not abject, and the body is not only a stinking heap of shit or rotting sack of meat. Whatever seeps out may be different each time. It might be shit or blood, fear or love, envy, energy, saliva or psyche. All of those are the same, somehow held together in fragility for just a moment in time. Sometimes it feels like a fight to keep it together. it is whole but flows free.

I am not really a lover of social media in its current iteration, although I do have a couple of accounts I rarely update now. Therefore, if you would like to know what I'm doing, research or shop news, do sign up to my mailing list. I tend to send quarterly updates but you might get something up to once a month.