Born 1979, London, Uk.

With a mixture of cement, filler PVA and oil paints I build brick walls on board. I carve in intricate bricks using a knife and nails to bring about a textured and tactile surface, into which I can scratch, literally attack, make marks and onto which I can apply different painting languages.

Graffiti is one kind of mark making I explore in my work. Aside from its universality and its illegal characteristics ultimately what draws me to it, is that it is a way by which an individuals voice is heard and through which a personal mark, though temporary, is left.

Whilst exploring graffiti I began to consider types of housing such as architecture reminiscent of the Corbusian vision of a ville lumiere and types of housing which are non-architectural and temporary. However this interest has now shifted to focusing on the specific in architecture, namely bricks.

Onto these tagged brick walls I have begun to paint landscapes bringing various issues into conflict. Have the boundaries, of city versus country, in our mondern world become blurred? Our our ever exapanding cities posing a threat to natural environments? Or is it just graffitists having fun?!!!

Whilst I use particular, often loaded, graffiti style words and attack the surface, more often than not at random, ultimately I aim to combine fine art and street art into a coherent image which speaks of our modern world:experiences and encounters, a word said, a look given, emotions felt.

I am interested in the work of Jean Michele Basquiat, Dondi, David Hepher, Howard Hodgkin and Tapies.
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