Artist Biography

I am a self taught artist working mainly with watercolour with some mixed media. Before i began painting i worked as a self employed construction estimator which i finally ended during the lockdown 2020 to begin learning about mindfulness, compassion and nature whilst building a life as an artist as they are all interconnected for me.

Painting was a joy when i was a child but i just did not fit into the model of that era and i forgot all about painting. In 2017 , after a traumatic event i awoke with a desire to paint which i have not stopped exploring.

After studying mindfulness and compassion in 2020 i discovered that i had “Aphantasia” which i cannot visualise or attain any inner senses which made sense to my childhood experiences. At the end of 2023 i also discovered i was on the spectrum of Autism.

Initially there were aha moments , then moments of feeling limited but i discovered something within me which i was curious about how someone who cannot visualise can create paintings and is intrinsically drawn to it.

Before my Dad died in November 2023 my work was bright colours in acrylic , it was whimsical and similar to “cobra” style painting. I stopped painting after my final exhibitions in 2024 as i needed a break after Family deaths. Once again going through some troubles at the beginning of 2025 , in-between homes, i began painting to help me get through my day and as i did not have the space i chose to make daily small watercolour poems which now i am working on 1000 watercolour poems.

I moved to Kielder Forest in April 2025 and i began wandering the woodlands surrounding my home and beyond which i felt something but could not describe it in words and not having the ability to visualise i began creating to seek that feeling using watercolours and organic material. In October 2025 i wanted to discover more of this feeling directly in the woodlands.

The outside painting wasn’t to paint figuratively what i saw , or to abstract the landscape as that would require visualisation but to express what i am feeling by allowing what i have chosen to paint to guide me until i need no more guidance and i have connected to something deeper. To find the hidden forces within nature and to co-create with them.

The website helps me keep connected by creating a structure but also i want to share my humanness to others.

Art is not about commercial products but of human self expression and i think that the world has lost its way of the reverence of these wonderful gifts we all have innate within us and therefore i feel a duty even though i feel vulnerable about my work to share into the world.