Picking up a pencil and teaching my self to draw when I was 10 years old has had a lasting effect on my life.

Thirty years later, my two main areas of Art exploration are painting and drawing. I draw my inspiration from all things around me. I now teach students in learning the fundamentals of visual art and how much it can have an impact on their lives.

I’m very much inspired by organics, the abstract, the figure as well as the landscape. I try to fuse, morph and juxtapose all these different elements together when creating a piece. I like to create imagery, using things that we don’t see everyday, layering colour and light that draws the viewer into the painting so that they can enjoy it for the story that it tells.

My portraits are incorporated into my work using references from different media such as books, magazines or newspapers and combining both the abstract and the figure together to create a new and original piece.

I paint and draw because I can and because I enjoy it. It is the most direct way to engage an idea, a feeling, an urge, yet the most difficult to execute, master or expand.

I am constantly renewing, reinventing and deliberately combining subjects and techniques in my paintings and drawings.

Each one of my pieces is always different from the last.