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As a child I was obsessed with the dark parts of the forest, death, beautiful decay, the transformation of Dr. David Banner into The Hulk, of David Kessler into a werewolf, inventing ghost train rides and exploring rock pools in Cornwall. I read lots of horror and wrote a lot too, I was easily distracted; I could soundtrack my life to music; I believed that I was part of a fictitious world; Art was an outlet and alongside reading, the only time that I couldn’t be distracted. A random note taker I squirreled away copious amounts of paper with scribbled thoughts, dreams and ideas in different boxes, note pads and books. Nothing much has changed. Some of the things that inspire me: Haunting soundtracks, Words, David Lynch, Carl Jung, Empty beer cans around a dead fire, Rodchenko, Milan Kundera, Dostoevsky, Painting grottos black, Hughie O’Donoghue, Charlie Kaufman, Trees, Peter Doig, Kafka, Irony, The boundless mind, Stanley Donwood, Terry Gilliam, Flann O’ Brien, Andrei Tarkovsky, Mikko Rantanen, Black comedy, Memory, Francis Bacon, Andrzej Klimowski, Raushenberg, Darren Arononfsky, Polaroid prints, The transcendental possibilities of music, The wind rolling across the world, Ruins, Getting lost, Time, Madness and Meditation. I have been a long time collaborator and member of the arts collective Lazy Gramophone, contributing illustrations to their many publications, exhibiting at their events and offering advice and critique. In 2009 I collaborated with the artist Ned Conran to produce artwork for the children’s charity Love in the Sky. The final piece 'Your Brain in Love' was exhibited and sold at the ICA London. In the same year I also managed to win Don't Panic Magazine's Poster Design Competition and was published by 20x20 Magazine. If you want to know more here’s me revealing my soul a little to Lazy Gramophone: Interview |
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