Trained at Epsom University for the Creative Arts in ‘Fashion illustration and Photography’ and graduated in 1994. This was followed by quite long absence from the creative scene as I turned my focus onto family life. Proud father to 4 children.
Now they have flourished themselves I have been able to continue my own artistic journey.
My creative time is split between living in Houghton, Cambridgeshire where I am a member of a weekly life drawing group, regular residential trips to North Norfolk coast, particularly Wells-Next-The-Sea.
Work
My current work is a mixture of both figurative and landscape art interspersed with more abstract geometric works, some with meaning others just for the easthetic.
My figurative drawing centres around ‘Life drawing’ sessions. Drawing in charcoal and occasionally pen and sharpie. In short poses I try to capture the dynamic. Long poses are more study of light and how it falls accross the body.
More recently I have been experimenting with geometric patterns and have been working under the description ‘Geometric Constructivism’.
I like to play with the subject using unfamiliar mediums, I do not consider myself as a painter but as an artist.
Music
Music fills the air in my studio. Sijazz is also my Dj name. I am massive music fan and have large collection of vinyl records. To me art and music are ‘like brothers’.
Preferred listening: modern jazz, latin, funk, soul, drum and bass, hip hop, house.
A lover of the drum, my working style often mirrors these expressive music forms. I follow a beat layering on top my own creative rhythms in a freeform way.