I've been a practising Artist based in Liverpool for over ten years. During this time I've worked as an animator on music videos, an illustrator for various companies and have had several paintings commissioned. I've exhibited in Liverpool Birmingham and London. In 2005 I began doing live paintings in front of audiences atvarious music gigs and festivals around the city, and in 2012 I won a live art competition to commemorate the Queens Diamond Jubilee. My painting of the Queen as Godzilla breathing fire over the Liver Buildings won both the judges prize and the peoples prize. In 2013 I worked on the Black Duke of Lancaster Project alongsidesome of Europe's best urban artists.
Primarily a painter, I work mainly in Oil, Acrylic, Ink and Spray can, but I also enjoy using charcoal, pastel and oil pastel and have recently started experimenting withvarious combinations of all the above.
A lot of my work involves common aspects of the human condition, things like love, guilt and isolation. I like to take the mundane and turn it into the absurd. I also try to identify the negative aspects of society and hold them up to ridicule. Things like government corruption, the military industrial complex and the vacuousness ofmass media interest me. By holding these problems up to mockery and petulant vitriol, an outlet appears that doesn't involve slamming ones head repeatedly againsta wall in despair. This approach and my cartoonist style stems primarily from influences like Ralph Steadman, Gerald Scarfe and Steve Bell.
Much of my work has been described as 'a darkly humorous, sardonic blend of comic book illustration and graffiti style graphics'. I guess that's pretty accurate.Although I am currently exploring more imagery based on nature and observation, with a view to perhaps assimilating these two apposing styles into one. I'm available for commissions, illustrations and live paintings.