I am a midlands based fine artist and designer, I create high quality, modern art, hand made oil paintings and digital paintings. My painting work consists of three mediums, Oil on canvas, sculptural three dimensional paintings, and digital paintings. In my career I also create concept designs, and high resolution advertising using the Adobe creative suite to create my works, but my main passion is fine art and above all creating.
I try to create work which depicts its own short story, a reflection of a thought or a feeling, visually the images I create are quite vivid and sharp, bordering on photo real perhaps, but the context is quite fragmented. Figures and shapes occur at random, set in irrational scenes and scenarios, I think the random element of my work stems from my interests in surrealism.
It is single handed responsible for inspiring me to create the work I make. I love the irrational, the idea that things can have a hidden meaning.
2011 Digital Painting.
A piece based on the four horsemen of the apocalypse
2011 Digital painting
A personal piece inspired by a song of the same title, the scenes featured in the image were all inspired by the thoughts and feeling evoked from a previous holiday in Zante.
Art, Music, Word
Art, Music, Word
Art, Music, Word
Art, Music, Word
The third of three pieces taking inspiration from the music video for DJ Shadows song High Noon.The video has an initial dark undertone, but is balances by the smooth beats from Dj shadow. The piece is a surrealist take on American film iconography.
Art, Music, Word
A little bit my art background. I studied fine art at Birmingham City University; it was during my time there that I began to really look at the visual languages of popular culture, media and advertising. A big part of popular culture is film, I began to explore the various emotions and contextual topics depicted through film and how the absence of motion and sound can alter its visual reading. I started out photographing films in motion, then, project them onto shapes, it was there that I discovered the amazing distortions created by both the camera and the three dimensional shapes.
I then began to think about creating more specific structural shapes to use to paint on, my idea was to paint various scenes of a film onto the shapes and create a kind of painting installation were the viewer would walk through various scenes still from a film. I felt that through paint I would be able to really emphasise the motion blurs and distortions, and create a whole new context for the original subject matter.
