INTRODUCTION
I am a self taught artist, having previously worked in the design and print industry for most of my life and painting in my spare time. My subject is inspired by what's around me – particularly people and the streets of my hometown, Bath. When I walk or travel, I typically take numerous photographs and like to browse through them upon returning home, looking for that unique moment captured. Narrative is important to me, which led me to a personal recent project on people's obsession with mobile phones. I am a member of the Bath Society of Artists and the Frome Art Society.

MY MEDIUM
I nearly always work in oils on canvas for the bigger paintings – the smaller recent work is done on MDF board. Oil is a vesatile medium that I first tried when fourteen years of age. I have never looked back and feel I have advanced a lot since then.

WORKING PROCESS
My working process is to experiment with source photos in Photoshop (my sketch book) and look at various visual possibilities. I then up-scale it onto the canvas and paint an umber underpainting to sort out the tonal values before the final colour version. A recent series I called 'Negative Space' using positive and negative areas to select view points, therefore controlling how the viewer sees and responds to the image. I am now experimenting with a new hybrid approach – mixing two or more disciplines of art in one picture. Recently, I have found that I need to work on several pictures at once to allow for drying time between phases.