Born in 1982. British. Studied Philosophy through to 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), British Neo-Romanticism and early European Modernism. Most works displayed on this site are recent works but there are some of my older works amongst them. 

I would like to make an 'artists statement' but such statements are often coded in the language of contemporary art and its newspeak. Needless to say I am not engaging with the contemporary art scene. I am not even 'reacting' against it, since it is a dying paradigm in any case. There are new emergences and energies in the art world, in quiet but growing smaller scenes. These are not 'reactionary' movements, but are quite simply not interested in the exhausted contemporary (as an institutional set-up) art scene and its ideological bent. The majority of post-modern art has been an anti-art in spirit and intent, and i am not interested in anti-art. One does not have to 'engage' with the the institutional contemporary art world or be in 'dialogue' with it (common myths); but at the same time we know it is there and what it signals. As others have said, we are simply 'stepping over it' because it is no longer relevant or has anything to say. 

So we once again seek the universal in art, and authentic, sincere and true art will speak with the same voice it has always spoke with. We know it when we see it, and the goal is to try and get there, in our own grasping way, the best we can.

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