Born in 1982. British. Studied Philosophy through PhD level, with a focus on Kant's Aesthetic theory and other aesthetic theories. Practiced art throughout my 20's, but due to various contingencies stopped practicing art for around a decade. Began painting and drawing again in the autumn of 2023, with a clearer idea and vision of what I want to achieve. Self taught artist, influenced by the golden age of British art (18th C through to early 19th C), Early-Mid Modernism and British Neo-Romanticism. Most works displayed on this site are recent works but there are some of my older works amongst them. 

My main focus and interest is landscape painting, where I primarily work plein air, and like to work directly from the subject as much as I can. I also enjoy painting flowers and still life. The website here is a documentation of my progress and where things stand: and as much as I would like to make an 'artists statement', such statements are often coded in the language of contemporary art and its tropes (so i am weary of speaking too much). Suffice to say, at this point in our civilisational movement I personally believe contemporary art (as an institutional phenonmenon) is largely dead, and that we will and are witnessing new emergences that will move away from contemporary coded style, structure and content. 'Classical' here does not mean imitating the past, or trying to re-animate art styles or movements from prior epochs, but rather re-focusing on the eternal and universal in nature and then aiming to capture/express as best we can these somewhat transcendent concepts and ideas (as vague as they might be). Nothing here is 'reactionary', but really just an inevitable moving on and away from what no longer has life or value. The work should speak on its own terms, by itself in isolation, and not needing to be embeded in a political or philosophical context to express sense, inherent worth and value. Getting good is essential, and that is what i am trying to do. Art is long, life is short. 

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