My portfolio as you'll see from my site, splits into several sections,
Illustrations and Sketchbooks - Figurative work
Paintings - Personal explorations, mark making and studies
Music - Electronic experiments & sound design
3d Animation - Model making, computer aided design and photography
and finally there's the Web Design.

The model making started on the Art course at Thurrock. I would build these weird abstract models and environments out of card which I'd light dramatically creating strange shadows and spaces. My work on the Degree course at Brighton followed a similar theme, with paintings and illustrations based around short stories by Edgar Allan Poe. It was great subject matter, inspiring dark atmospheric imagery.

On the M.A. course I started bringing together these various elements, the model making and photography, the dark paintings, and for the first time my music. The final result being the Hawksmoor film.

Bringing things completely up to date, the 3d animation work is an indication of how I'd like to see my work develop. The software I'm using (Studio Max) allows you to model and animate complete environments within the computer. I'm still at the very early stages of using this program but can see myself in the near future not only being able to build and create the worlds I paint and draw but to add the further dimensions of time, movement and sound.

My most recent work painting wise, has been concerned with shape and form, creating abstract environments, playing around with the idea of suggestion, negative spaces, of half seen structures and figures. The aim moving forward is to make these paintings much more believable, more realistic, so you'll be almost convinced of what's there; but at the same time it'll still be incomplete and unresolved. I like the idea of your eyes trying to fill in the visual gaps and missing information, hopefully giving each viewer a slightly different experience.