As long as I can remember, I was aware that there had to be something else to where I came from. Through the pictures in books and fashion mags of my mums, or the TV. and its fanciful world of colour, lights, girls, boys, busy cities and glamorous worlds of intrigue, danger, broken dreams, kitchen sink dramas and fruitful pleasures from beyond the ocean
I decided one day I would go in
search of this wonderful world.
From my working class back ground; at the age of 18, I decided I could no longer exist in what was to be expected of my class, or what people thought I was. My life began here.
My work often represents the
images I had as a child in their dreamscape and fancy nature. Colour has always
played a key part in my work. Coming from a working class England where colour
is so often missing, it was paramount in my minds eye that there should be
strong vivid colours in my life, like in the movies from the 1960s and 70s .
My education took me through 4
years at the City of Westminster College, where I was nurtured and encouraged
with my talent for ideas and narratives. I did a further year under the wings
of the classical painter Andre Durand, and this became one of the most
important steps in my life, discovering my own identity and creativity.
Here I studied the classics and the form of the human body and structure with the expression within postures and muscle torsion. The representation of colour and the power of narrative. Again, like a child, I had my eyes and mind opened and I have a great love, both creatively and culturally for The Renaissance period and constantly taking reference from all the art forms and narrative of constructing and image
My work has taken me all over the world, with a lot of time spent in the U.S.A, Europe and South East Asia where I lived for 3 years. Over the past 7 years i have collaborated with other artist to produce exhibition's as well as solo shows. You will find that I have been art and fashion director on CLASH magazine the past 2 years and am now the director of photography on PIMP magazine where we are pushing the boundaries of creative art and fashion. PIMP magazine is due to become one of the most exciting magazines of this time with a team of strong minded and directional editors, writers and producers.
As you can see i like to keep my self constantly busy, and find that I am happiest when my work load is back to back with the production and shooting of images.
My works have come to encompass every thing I dreamt of and lived as a child From the very simple and complex working class life with its kitchen sink dramas that I am proud to have been brought up in, to the lifestyle of the avant-garde and decadent that I pass through. And finally the education I gave myself, and from many a foe within my world that with out there support and encouragement would have been far more difficult to achieve
Don't dream it. Be it! or at-least photograph how you would like to see it.....
