Education 

  • 2024 CAA Contemporary arts academy  Developing critical practice course 1-2
  • 2023 Putney School of art. Walking Drawing Workshop
  • 2022  Slade Summer School online Experimental printing and painting 
  • 2019: City Lit Personal practice for developing a professional independent project
  • 2013 PA To Valery Martinchick  Russian Avant Garde artist Bethnal Green
  • 2015: MFA Illustration & Visual Media, University of the Arts London (Camberwell) – Full Scholarship recipient.
  • 2012: BA (Hons) Fine Art Painting, University of the Arts London (Wimbledon).
  • 2011 PA To Paul Freud Portatist Bermondsey

Awards & Residencies 

  • [2015]: The Stevenson Award, University of the Arts London (Funding for ethnographic research & tree planting in the Ecuadorian Cloud Forest).
  • [2022]: Joya:AiR Residency, Title WILDING Location Almeria, Spain (Selected Artist).

Selected Exhibitions 

  • 2023: Urban Impressions, [Brixton Urban Art Fair], London.
  • 2022: I Follow Rivers, [River Thames], London.
  • 2021: Working Upon the Land, St Pancras Church Basement Gallery (Film & Sculpture Installation).
  • Finsbury Park Nature Trail
  • Barcelona
  • Wimbeldon
  • Camberwell
  • Brick Lane
  • River Thames Walkway
  • Velez Rubio

Psychological & Social Archetypes

Biography

"I consider myself a ‘Land Walker’— My practice is rooted in the dérive; I navigate London’s ‘urban jungle’ to uncover a vernacular of marks, shadows, and graffiti 

Within the urban walkways of London I find evidence of tagging, composed mark making archetypes, those hidden voices found in lines, colours, shapes, figures,and words all become a trail of abstraction, one that affects my jungian unconscious and whilst at home, I often find myself whilst drawing and painting falling into the zone, that becomes a liminal state from which I find my creative flow.

 

Having been awarded the Lord and Lady Stephenson award a UAL grant to research tribal symbols in South America, and at Andalucia Spain my current work explores the synthesis between ancient Huichol petroglyphs and contemporary urban mark-making.

I treat the city as a palimpsest where layers of decay and construction form a spiritual ‘Art as Language.’ The Alchemical City.

Through onsite painting on primed linen paper, photography, and digital drawing, I document these ‘hidden Londons,’ transforming mundane transit routes into poetic sites of shamanic connection. My work seeks to balance the primitive with the contemporary, revealing the sacred within the concrete."

 

artists I reference are, Photographer Arron Siskind, Archetype Expressionist Constantin Severin, Symbolists A R Penck, keith Haring, Cy Twombly, Christopher Wool. 

 

"If I could give London a song it would be a silent mix of Handel & vintage classical jazz". 

 

 After returning from Spain at an ecological residency I decided to explore London's Graffiti culture to help asist my prime reserch model which is about developing an art language from Lines and Symbols.

To begin  "Can Art and Spirituality Merge"? which is my new series The Alchemical City it will concern exploring London's graffiti culture it is connected to a body of ecological,experimental and historical  image research that I started during my time at Camberwell art school where I compared "contemporary tribal symbols" the X O L (from South America) to decode or map the "hidden symbols" of London’s urban landscape".