About
I’m a multimedia artist based in Manchester. Oil painting is my current speciality, and I’m also an illustrator and graphic designer. After spending the last ten years as a successful digital artist I’ve decided to return to painting. Passion projects on the side include remixing music, video editing and animation.
In high school I studied Edward Hopper and early Hockney, emulating their styles and developing my own techniques. At art college I concentrated on video and sculpture.
Everything changed for me in 2002 when I studied digital arts at Idea Training and suddenly technology and painting met and married soon after. While working as a DJ, I studied sound engineering at SSR Audio and became one of the founding members of The Devious Corporation, a musical collective from the 1990s. I’ve worked with the teams behind Pet Shop Boys and K-Klass and past personal projects include bootleg remixes for Goldfrapp, Kate Bush and curating the art exhibition at Through The Mill arts festival. My magazine covers for Out North West magazine led to a big spike in distribution and I’ve created web commercials and worked as a voiceover artist. My video work has been broadcast by the BBC and I owned the hugely successful Chorlton Art Market in Manchester, where I sold my work.