Scotland.
Commited to drawing, believe it to be the 'polygraph' of the soul for an artist.
I consider my sketch books as a thousand compressed art shows, acting like 'FONDS' (from Beuys'use of the word as battery)
Influences:
beuyskiefertwomblytapiesmardenpicassodinepalladinodebuffetrothenbergrauchenberg especially the 'eraser' strategy inflicted on De Kooning.
The garden is my studio, I know I am working when the sun is peeling my back.

Practice:
diverse = painting, sculpture, artifact creation, industrial archeology photography.
Photography/digital and video
Have shown in London with Orient- Michaelson also Art Site in Bath, was part of 'The Box Show'.'Surface to Surface'at Turnpike Gallary, Leigh.
Arts coordinator for the 'Tin Angel'.
Have undertaken extensive
'alternative' shows and art production, in disappearing factories and mines around the Coventry area. Partly as a critique against the negative political and social decissions that have affected the environment, but also to re-inscribe a personal language onto highly political and remaindered sites.
wrote attendant essay for 'Reaching for Tacit Utopias' at the 'Surface Gallery'
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