My Work

My work is inspired by urban landscape, issues of gentrification, inequality, and the flux of city environments.

I am particularly interested in Brutalist / Modernist architecture and social housing estates and in documenting such sites before they are lost.

Between 2011 and 2017, and then again during lockdown between 2020 - 2022, my work focussed on Park Hill, the Grade II* listed Sheffield council estate and one of Britain’s largest examples of Brutalist architecture. The site is currently undergoing regeneration, with much of the estate converted into luxury flats, the remaining left boarded up and derelict.

It was the un-refurbished parts of Park Hill that I found most inspiring, where the memories and layers of the past were almost tangible. I wanted to paint the estate in this transitional state and also for the work to speak of the loss and displacement of the existing communities. Since 2017, I have been exploring similar locations undergoing gentrification in London, Manchester, Salford and Liverpool. In 2019, I received an Arts Council Grant to investigate the North East of England to make new paintings and prints for a solo exhibition that I had at Huddersfield Art Gallery. However, during lockdown,

Materiality, surface textures and facture are important concerns to me and I work with materials that have a physical connection to the sites I depict, namely concrete and spray paint (referencing the graffiti).

I cast concrete into small canvases to work on directly, employing spray paints and micro masking tapes to build up flat zones of colour in layers and then oil painting for fine detail finishing. More recently, I have been working on large and lighter, custom made glass fibre reinforced panels to increase the scale of my work and also marble, referencing the perceived inequalities of rival building materials.

I have also investigated the same subject in print. In 2015 I was awarded a 2 year Fellowship to learn stone lithography at Leicester Print Workshop www.leicesterprintworkshop.com/ under the tutelage of expert lithographer Serena Smith www.serenasmith.org/ . In 2024 I made a new body of work exploring plate lithography with Catherine Ade at Lemonade Press in Bristol and in 2025 have worked with Paul Croft, Senior Lecturer at Aberystwyth School of Art to create 3 new stone and plate lithographs.

Most of my work is for sale and I am also available for commissions. Many of my concrete paintings are also available as limited edition giclee prints.