I’ve always been drawn to color, I cannot remember a time when I wasn’t aware of the colors, light and textures around me. The light hitting the edge of a wall creating a magic that changes the next minute, like a sunset that can never be pinned down or owned… always changing then gone forever. Literally a visual/physical experience of time moving before your eyes.

This is the stuff that really excites me.

I can vividly remember certain colors from childhood, how they made me feel, the sense of that moment in a way that nothing else can. The way the blue play-doh looked against the white, it just had a feeling about it.

For me the magic of painting is all about these sensory experiences that don’t exist in any other way, they are unique, special and are what drives me to create.

I’ve been painting as a hobby for more than 40 years now, and in my heart I’ve always known this was what I would ultimately do with my life.

But as the world works and your life moves through it, a career in painting was not a reasonable or responsible endeavor for the first few chapters of my time as an adult.

My answer to the “life as a creative” question was to make a career in graphic design. I was a big fan of the TV series Bewitched when I was a kid, and I thought Darren Stevens work at the advertising agency looked like a lot more fun way to make a living than a boring office job.

Darren Stevens was an inspiration; I know it sounds silly, but it is true.

At 19 years old I started at the very bottom, working as a paste-up artist for yellow page ads, way before computers existed.

I never looked back and ended up making my own way with a thriving solo freelance design business.

Although I haven’t had any “formal” art training, I’ve spent my entire life obsessed with visual experience, design, color and what it means.

I am now a bit older, much more confident and have been investing a lot more time and energy into my painting. This time spent has yielded some very interesting results, and I’ve developed a unique approach to subject and technique for my work.

If I must use words to describe my original art (which is never an easy ask), I will say my paintings are built from a curiosity about what true intelligence really is and how it plays out in the natural world. And by true intelligence I mean to say; what’s behind this world and the life that lives within it?