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I cover any subject matter from celebrity portraits, animals, architecture, landscapes, seascapes and cityscapes to climate change and politics. I work in the mediums of Swarovski Crystal, mosaic, mixed media, hole punch dots and paper collage.

Previous clients have included celebrities, public companies and private individuals.
(See biography for details).

Overall, my work is an antidote to the chaos I see in the world around me. It is an escape mechanism with a bright, naive quality, as if seen through the eyes of a child. I like to be free to experiment with different media but despite this I strive to maintain a recognisable identity throughout my work. My travels in South America, Africa and the Far East, influenced primary colour schemes in my work whilst a more subtle use of colour evolved in renditions of European architecture and landscapes. I choose tactile materials.In these small shapes of individual interest, amalgamated to form a much more significant whole, I search for beauty and meaning in minute detail and the big picture simultaneously. Look carefully to see text and messages incorporated into my images, which often give information about the subject, or deliver a secondary or subversive message. Whatever the subject matter, I hope the viewer can return to my work again and again and have a new experience each time.

I apply the same techniques to the different media I use and each medium has a connection to the next. For example, building an artwork from paper collage involves cutting the individual shapes to fit the composition in the same way as a mosaic. My hole punch dot images have a very similar technique to the Swarovski crystal works, in fact, I often use the hole punch technique as a study for later works in Swarovski. Both hole punch dots and Swarovski take their influence from the pointillist movement but also use the same techniques and principles as mosaic in the way the andamento flows. Finally, my mixed media images are an explosive combination of the above and also include painting and other media. I include text and commentary in these images as a reflection of my earlier work as a graphic designer.

See below for a more detailed description of individual mediums:

A 100% Swarovski Crystal image is something very precious and luxurious, a reflective image constantly changing with the light, a true investment for the future that will never be replicated. As such, it is very difficult to show the true beauty of these materials online, but the reaction to an original is always one of awe. The properties of the crystals are constantly changing depending on the light conditions. In sunlight they send scatterings of reflected colours around the room and in the semi dark they change mood altogether and the image takes on the appearance of a hologram. Each image contains thousands of Swarovski Crystals, all applied by hand.

The technique of optically mixing colours is influenced by the artists of the pointillist movement and is critical to my work with Swarovski Crystals. My current work is dominated by commissions of celebrity portraits where I aim to capture a likeness with a unique quality.

It is narrative art that tells a story pictorially and textually. The final splashes can appear quite violent and intense or simply droplets. This style takes its influence from different areas including the Pop Art movement and also drip art of the Abstract Expressionist movement... I suppose you could call it ‘Drip Pop!’