arising from suppression Painting

I was born on the 17th May 1975 in Northampton UK.

I am a self taught artist and create images that often depict people, love, paranoia, agoraphobia, obsessive-ness, friendship; and the complex psychological drives of human nature of which we may often be unaware - or at times only too aware. It was only later I saw that I had in fact intuited the truth that, for me, images depict such abstract concepts more satisfactorily than words. More particularly, that expression has to be satisfactory for, I realised, my obsession was driven by an ultimate objective: to depict the very content of human experience, in order to justify by example my belief that the individual is just that. It was this obsession with images that culminated, in my early twenties, in the onset of an Obsessive Compulsive Disorder characterised by a concentration - consuming hunt for simulacra I could not switch off, regardless of the urgency of the matter in hand: eyes seeking out a face, a body, an animal, whatever, at every - however inappropriate - moment, and in every surface that could be considered in any way conducive to this search. On my discovery of pyrography I immediately saw the potential to fully realise my drawings, and took it up as my main medium of choice.