I'm an artist working in the North-West of England who specializes in painting, drawing and intaglio printmaking,
My practice is, in part, a surreal and darkly humorous commentary on the anxieties and absurdities of modern life, where animals and people appear in increasingly strange and unlikely scenarios; such as chasing each other endlessly around the kitchen table or clambering over rooftops above the terraced streets of my hometown, Preston.
Aside from this, I habitually returns to still-life paintings of old toy cars and lead animals, broken teapots, rusty paraffin lamps and other, seemingly worthless, household junk; finding much to celebrate in these forgotten remnants of people's lives.
My work is partly biographical, evoking half forgotten memories and events, a series of on-going visual narratives that drift between comedy and tragedy, reality and fantasy, the past and present.