Influenced in my early artistic development by Salvador Dali, Francis Bacon, and later Jean-Michel Basquiat, my painting style is a hybrid of abstract expressionism and surrealism. One of the key elements of my work is intuitive spontaneity, so the paintings usually beginning with a flurry of activity and gestures in the manner of an expressionist painter. After allowing the controlled chaos of paint to define the soul of each piece, I then set out to respond to the marks by interpreting the abstract forms, similar to perceiving images when watching clouds form and de-form. I leave portions of raw and unrefined painterly marks as a method of engaging imagination, combining them with more recognisable detailed features to create a sense of 'surreality'. I aim to create paintings that display a complex visual depth, where impressions, patterns, and hidden forms gradually reveal themselves as they are observed over time. My hope is to create a still image, imbued with spontaneous action so that space, time, and form, seem to shift in and out of perception, portraying the dream logic of the subconscious. Shamanic symbolism, subconsciously channeled iconography, and a grimy, tactile, street aesthetic, combine to build unique and unexpected outcomes which can be described as:  '#PUNK SURREALISM'

By allowing myself to think creatively on the canvas, I can capture the evolution of ideas in progress. The paintings change and evolve as they are created, leaving traces of alternate states which build on top of each other like interconnected layers of the mind. It's a process of simultaneous creation and destruction. I don't want to over-clarify the images because I'm aiming to capture the in-between state, the static impression of ideas in transition. The paintings are a combination of real and imagined forms, influenced by interests in evolution, totemic symbolism, archetypes, street art, alchemy, spirituality, paganism, science fiction, astronomy, biology, and psychology. In the past, science, spirituality, and art weren't separated, they were one unified field of expertise practiced by people known as 'Alchemists'. We, humans, have spent the past millennium dividing, separating, and categorising each and every aspect of our shared realities into smaller and smaller pieces. We have found that at the tiniest level conceivable, everything is unified. So now, the tide has turned, and cross-disciplinary projects are fertilizing huge advances in science and culture. We are oscillating waves in an ocean of existence, and we are all connected... If oln-y we could see it.

I enjoy eating home-grown vegetables, and watching my succulents bloom… that is, on the rare occasions they aren't eaten by wandering gangs of malcontent slugs.