About me
With my work focused on the idea of embracing change; I am inspired by pareidolia, folklore, myths and legends, transformation, aboriginal cultures and Quixotism, ephemeral visual misunderstanding, ocular strangeness, nightmares, dreams and fleeting glimpses of unreality.
I work in traditional mediums such as pencil and ink, on my own home-made marbled papers to create art using the hands on techniques of drawing, ink and paint washes to further make images with intricate detail and narrative to pick out details that promote the telling of the tale through images filled with narrative, allure and creatures from around the allegorical world, all in the recognisable style of my own.
I work mainly within the realm of short fiction stories both for print and online publications. With an illustrative mind and experience in many aspects of artwork, my passion is for imagery that accompanies literature based in the surreal, Gothic and fairy tales; I have also exhibited work internationally recently winner of 'Best in British Product Design' in the Brit List 2021 awards for 'Metamorphosis' - the fabric I designed for and in collaboration with, The Monkey Puzzle Tree wallcoverings and fabrics.
Skills
Fine Arts, Illustration, Interior Design, Pattern Design
Sector Experience
Awards
Winner of Best Product Design by Hotel Designs
Clients
Ameilia, Anima Mundi, Anonymous Art, Be safer project, Brass Castle Brewery, Cabinet Des Fees, Cultivate Gallery London, Deershed Festival, Discover Ripon, Doodle Swap, Drabblecast, Dragongate festival, Exterminating Angel, Fantastique Unfettered, Firewords mag, Gatehouse Gazette, Green Man trail Ripon, Happygate Festival, Havelocks, Holdfast, Innsmouth Free Press, J.R Poulter, JKS, Leeds Tarot Project, Mad Hatter, Major Tom Harrogate, Masham Gallery, Mercer Gallery, Monkey Puzzle Tree, Newby Hall, North Bar Harrogate, Otley Courthouse, Paraxis, Portico Library Manchester, Primo Piano Gallery Italy, Psychopomp mag, Rudgate Brewery, Scherezade, See Me exhibition Times Square, Sketchbook Project, Squiffy, Strangelet Mag, Teardrop Cottage, Thornborough festival, Tigz Rice, Treasure & Relish, Truancy Mag, White rabbit Trail Ripon, Zouch Mag