​I was born on the 30th of May 2003, in the historical splendour of Lincoln and was raised in a local dainty village not far from. For a brief 6 years of my childhood me and my mother (who married a fellow in the army) moved around A LOT! I lived in Germany for 2 years and was around the midlands of the UK for the other 4. What an adventure! however I do remember it being pretty desolate around the areas, we were pretty much just surrounded by gates, fences, buildings, tanks, and long empty fields, not much to admire - until we moved back to Lincoln! Which left the rest of my childhood growing up in the countryside of Lincolnshire I was raised tending to my family’s 11 horses, since then I always had such a strong connection to the world around me. Through my school years I was always known as “the Artist” as I could always draw things extremely well from eye, however lacked the confidence to further my practice more than just simple line drawings, and I was PETRIFIED of paint. 

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Once I started at college, I really started to hone in on producing tonal drawings and toward the end I finally developed the confidence to even touch paint! Little did I know it’d become one of my favourite mediums to use. It all started after I watched the famous Television artist Bob Ross, his teacher Bill Alexander, and his crew of phenomenal TV instructors, however there was one instructor who I had admiration for and who really made an impact on my artistry and that is Buck Paulson. I was so infatuated by the way Buck made it all look so easy and look so realistic, he just wowed me in every stroke. Little did I know he would become not only a great friend of mine, but my mentor. Someone who guided my practice, helps me reinforce it and someone who is full of such divine wisdom – what an incredible character!

 

My practice now heavily consists of Landscape, Seascape, wildlife, still life paintings and Monochromatic drawings of a vast variety of things. They tend to be stills of movies or portraits of characters. My painting practice has a fairly interesting process, my pieces tend to be influenced by ideas I create pre-emptively on panels they are called Pochades they are simple little paintings done with a palette knife which helps me create a basic understanding of what I want to create, i'll then transfer it onto a larger canvas and do a basic painting. Or I tend to do an acrylic wash of random colours on a canvas and see what I can create or envision and work further on it with oils.

 

Some of my proudest moments so far as an artist include: me currently working with 2 famous actors from the film series The Texas Chainsaw Massacre which we are producing 74 limited edition autographed pieces of my drawing for people to buy! I also sell my work at Chewton Glen the 5-star hotel which I’m currently a part time house keeper for, it’s a nice place to show my work and have people express their love for the pieces they see in the boutique. I now reside in Hampshire, UK where I’m currently studying at Solent university where I hope to further enhance my fine art studies.

 

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