About
I was born and raised in London, where I have lived my entire life. After graduating from Hornsey College of Art in 1985, I became a Postgraduate Teaching Fellow and artist-in-residence at Christ’s Hospital School in Horsham, West Sussex.
Throughout the late 1980s and 1990s, my work was exhibited at prominent London venues, including the Serpentine Gallery, Royal Academy, and Contemporary Art Society. A spinal injury in the mid-1990s, however, forced me to step away from painting for an extended period.
Following surgery in 1999, I slowly regained some mobility and gradually returned to my creative practice. By 2006, my interest in photography deepened, and it became an essential means of visual expression.
My work explores themes of humanism, sociology, architecture, science, technology, industry, and history. I'm interested in how we perceive and remember the past, the impact of our actions on the environment and others, and the awesome, unrelenting power and grandeur of the natural world.
Whether it is the mundane or the extraordinary, I aim to capture the beauty, the ugly, the mysterious, and the unexpected.
The Sixth Land
Enter the Sixth Land. Gouache on paper, 1991
The Sixth Land is the idea of a realm that is both familiar and unknown, a place reached only through a transformative journey. On this journey, you realise that everything is different. You recall that somehow, everything has already happened, and everything has changed. This experience alters your perception, awakening a profound longing within your soul.
It's a vivid yet elusive memory. The Sixth Land is far away, but close by. It is across the sea and in the desert and inside a mountain and through a forest.
The name, ‘The Sixth Land,’ invented itself in a dream so vivid in its narrative clarity that it shaded my thoughts and emotions for a long time afterwards.
Over time, it became my shorthand for what is unusual, noteworthy, or overlooked, encapsulating the strangeness hidden in plain sight, the juxtaposition of the ordinary and the extraordinary. As a city dweller, I find this realm both in my immediate surroundings and distant places that capture my imagination.