About

By nature, I have always been a creative, outside the box thinker with a wild imagination. 

Growing up, I was very close to my grandad and even back then in the 1990’s he was big into reusing and recycling everything. This had a big influence on me and I feel this was unconsciously nurturing my inner creativity during the years I spent with him

He would pick up items while we walked along the street, take them home, repair them, or turn them into something else. Each year older and without him, I realise how much of an influence he had on me. 

I’ve suffered from a neurological vestibular condition for over 20 years now. One night in 2012 while walking into my kitchen feeling dizzy and struggling with visual disturbance, I tripped over a stack of empty silver coke cans on the floor which were ready to be thrown out. The way my eyes processed the silver reflecting the light,  it was creating strange spiralling shifting shapes. In my mind it’s as if the material was presenting itself to me. While horrible at the time, it did make me think more about the material and later on see that it had potential, value of a different kind. From there I started to experiment and explore it’s possibilities.

As I bring my recycled metal works to life I collect with used aluminium cans from local businesses and family.

My process is laborious and can be mentally tyring for larger works requiring lots of cans not to mention finger slicing at times. Each used can undergoes a five-stage preparation, including cleaning, measuring, cutting and shaping, before being transformed into a distinctive upcycled metal wall sculptures. 

Having had a lifelong passion for animals & nature my work tends to feature subjects within this vein. Often creatures who are overlooked or endangered and having a point to make. I have been known to make portraits of music icons also.

My hope is that these artworks shine a light, quite literally on how we are treating the environment we live in. If this art can be a gateway for conversations to disrupt our throwaway culture and disposable mindset then that is a positive direction! My internal drive is to make works that surprise and impress myself before anything else.

For me personally these works are transforming instability in health into creation, anxiety into focus, discarded objects into meaningful artworks. 

As you interact and stand before the works, maybe they will inspire fresh points of view within you about the definition of what beauty is?

I’ll leave you with one of my favourite quotes-

“Blessed are those who see beauty in humble places where others see nothing”