I studied 3D Design at Brighton polytechnic and graduated in 1992. Leaving Brighton I decided I needed to move to London to somehow continue with my art journey and eventually found work at Bronze Age sculpture casting studio in East London. I found the various processes and techniques of bronze casting fascinating and worked as a chaser in the metal work department welding and finishing cast bronze sculptures. After a few years working at the foundry and gaining valuable skills I decided it was time to move on.

On leaving Bronze Age I returned to my home town, Burton on Trent in Staffordshire feeling a bit lost and needing a change of direction. I decided to save up some money and take a year out to travel the world with my now wife Niki.

On my return I worked as a model maker while developing my own art practice.

Alongside my visual art practice I’m a musician, play numerous instruments and write music. I formed a band called The Gents and wrote an original album “ Which way to the Future”.

In 2008 finding it difficult to survive from my art alone I trained as a music leader to deliver music workshops in schools. In 2009 I set up in partnership “Pulse for Music CIC” which provides musical workshops and opportunities to vulnerable adults with mental health issues in the community.

In 2010 I had my first child Sophia follow by her sister Eliza in 2012. My personal work took a backseat during this period as I focused on Commissioned and freelance work and building a regular income.

Currently I deliver music projects for “Make Some Noise” music charity on a freelance basis working with vulnerable and disadvantaged children including young careers and looked after children. I am currently working as a musician/artist in residence at St Georges Hospital in Stafford working alongside the Arts for Health team to engage patients in constructive activity. I’ve been resident artist at Pegasus school for a few years now and provide education and care for children between the ages of 8 and 19 years, with Autism, challenging behaviour and complex communication and learning difficulties. I strongly believe that the arts are an effective vehicle to engage hard to reach and the most vulnerable people in society.

I work in a variety of media and styles including sculpture, drawing, digital and painting and have exhibited widely throughout the UK and sold to many art collectors world wide. I have received awards for my work and was a finalist in the “Not the Turner prize” for the painting “The Groom Smoking” ( judged by Andrew Lloyd Webber and Ronnie Wood ) and runner up in the Staffordshire open art competition .

I have a wide and varied portfolio ranging from song writing and band building projects to sculpture/painting commissions and community art projects.

Clients include - George Harrison ( TheBeatles ), Heathers of Henley ( Garden Design ), Carl McPhail, NHS, Trafford Centre, Wetherspoons, Andrew Leaver ( pharmaceuticals ), Buxton Museum, Staffs County Council, Mark Waters ( midwinter solutions), Harvey Cooke ( RE Cooke )

Exhibitions

Wirksworth Art Festival, Derbyshire

Artspace – Barn Galleries, Henly on Thames

Henley Music and Arts Festival

Cusp Gallery, Stamford House

Visions of the Future, Millais Gallery, Southampton Institute

Art at the Interface of Science and Technology, New Greenham Arts Centre, Newbury

Circles Gallery, Southsea

Staffordshire Open, Shirehall Gallery, Stafford

The Millenium Art Collection – Sculpture selected to feature in the international arts project ‘1001 Reasons to love the Earth

Floriade, Feel the Art of Nature, Amsterdam

The Face andthe Figure, Orleans House Gallery, Riverside, Twickenham

Not the Turner Prize, Mall Galleries. London

Art for Nature, Museum Leeuwenbergh, Utrecht, Netherlands

The Dial, Burton on Trent, Staffordshire Gallery DNA, Burton on Trent, Staffordshire

Shrewsbury Open, Shrewsbury Museum and Art Gallery

The Bronze Gallery, Hartley Wintney, Hampshire

Arlington Arts Centre, Newbury

The Brewhouse Arts Centre, Burton on Trent, Staffs

Dazed and Refused, The Arch Gallery, Tower Hamlets, London

T4C, The Arch Gallery, Tower Hamlets, London

Full Fat Art, 107 Station Street, Burton Upon Trent, Staffs

Emporium Gallery, Lichfield, Staffs

Pint Arts Festival, Burton Upon Trent