About my work:

"I'm a British artist based in Wales, UK: I work across a very broad spectrum of techniques. I hate the idea of limiting creativity. I use whatever materials are best for the job in hand, whether it's charcoal, stainless steel, oil paint or silkscreen"

SEE WHAT I'M UP TO RIGHT NOW and maybe SAY HELLO ON MY SOCIAL MEDIA CHANNELS:

     I'm based at BLACK MOUNTAIN GALLERY a studio / gallery I set up as a family business back in the 90's.It's based in a sprawl of ex-industrial buildings in the Wilds of Wales (UK)

     If you have any questions, just pick up the phone, the e-mail-o-graph or the messaging iron on Facebook. My site is run by actual human beings not algorithms !

     "Why oh why oh why don't you just paint things people like ? such as dogs, flowers and local views ?" 

 Years ago I tried to please people with my painting: it ended up with me painting maybe 10-15 large paintings a day (Yes: a day) which would sell on Ebay. They were beautifully done, people really liked them but it was soul-destroying.

     These days my output is purely what I want to paint. It usually has some sort of story behind it, my work usually contains plenty of pitch-black humour. Quite often it's not for the feint hearted. Admittedly, I sometimes "lapse" and paint the odd abstract landscape.

Making an acid bath out of glass fibre in one of our workshops:

Ever noticed how some people give you a funny look when you mention you own an acid bath ?

Weirdos...

Chopping up bits of metal for a steel sculpture. I'm hoping to add sculpture to the site in 2024.

I've not done any serious sculpture for a few years now, but I really should. Spent a bloody fortune on building up full workshop facilities for working with steel and ceramics, so I'll be back on the go with those in 2024

A blast from the past:

this was when Black Mountain Gallery used to operate as a retail gallery: When sales online outstripped sale from the gallery by about 200:1 we closed the doors and now operate online only.

It's great ! I still have followers all over the World that buy my artwork, but I'm now free to spend all my time being an antisocial semi-recluse painting weird stuff.

A drum and bass video for making an etching: not something you see every day !